Ambrosio Echemendia
Ambrosio Echemendia (born c. 1843) was an Afro-Cuban slave and poet. He authored poems such as Al Damují and Un incrédulo de mis versos.
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Accused of being involved in slave rebellions on the island, Cuba's white literary elite were so impressed by his verses that they raised $1000 to set him free in 1865.
Ambrosio Echemendia is a Cuban poet.
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- 1.Pettway, Matthew. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. 2016. 978-0-19-993579-6.
- 2.Poesia Breve. Ambrosio Echemendia.
- 3.Moore, Robin Dale. Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940. University of Pittsburgh Pre. 20. 17 December 1997. 978-0-8229-5645-7.
- 4.Fischer, Sibylle. Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. Duke University Press. 320. 9 April 2004. 978-0-8223-3290-9.
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