The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle (2006-04-04)
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In plain, stirring free verse, Engle dramatizes the boyhood of the nineteenth-century Cuban slave Juan Francisco Manzano, who secretly learned to read and wrote poetry about beauty and courage in his world of unspeakable brutality.
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