| Description |
1 online resource (lxix, 240 pages) |
| Contents |
Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative: An Introduction to A Black Soldier's Story; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Black Soldier's Story; Looking for Ricardo Batrell in Havana: An Appendix Essay; Acknowledgments; Translator's Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the Cuban War of Independence. After the war ended in 1898, Batrell taught himself to read and write and published a memoir of his wartime experiences, Para la Historia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Spanish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Batrell, Ricardo, 1880-
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| SUBJECT |
Batrell, Ricardo, 1880- fast |
| Subject |
Black people -- Cuba -- Biography
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Soldiers -- Cuba -- Biography
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HISTORY -- General.
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Black people
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Soldiers
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| SUBJECT |
Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1895-1898 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034575
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| Subject |
Cuba
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sanders, Mark A., 1963-
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| ISBN |
9780816674893 |
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0816674892 |
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