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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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Posted: Monday, May 10, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Sylvhania
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