by Miguel Barnet · Editorial Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722113250
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«Chimarrão: história de um escravo» is the testimonial account by Miguel Barnet, published by Editorial Caminho in paperback (224 pages, in Portuguese).
The book reconstructs the testimony of Esteban Montejo, a former Cuban slave who fled and lived as a cimarrón in the mountains of Las Villas. Based on interviews conducted when he was 103 years old, it describes the harshness of slavery, work in the sugarcane fields, Afro-Cuban traditions, and the mix of races and social classes in Cuban society.
The publication date is 1 April 2000.
For readers interested in the history of Cuba, slavery, and testimonial literature.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
