Read about the other entries on the list.The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, by Margarita Engle
Think of Juan Francisco Manzano as Cuba’s Phillis Wheatley. He was a man born into slavery who suffered the indignity of being ripped away from his mother and forced to call another woman Mama. Manzano became a celebrated poet against the odds. This fictionalized biography is told in verse.
--Marshal Zeringue
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