02679nam 2200553Ia 450 991082746360332120200520144314.00-8166-7489-2(CKB)2670000000069680(EBL)635539(OCoLC)698116898(SSID)ssj0000467306(PQKBManifestationID)11337328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467306(PQKBWorkID)10489526(PQKB)10019704(MiAaPQ)EBC635539(Au-PeEL)EBL635539(CaPaEBR)ebr10440587(EXLCZ)99267000000006968020100630d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA black soldier's story the narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence /Ricardo Batrell ; edited and translated by Mark A. SandersMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (312 p.)Translation of: Para la historia : apuntes autobiograficos de la vida de Ricardo Batrell Oviedo. Habana : Seoane y Alvarez, impresores, 1912.0-8166-5008-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative: An Introduction to A Black Soldier's Story; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Black Soldier's Story; Looking for Ricardo Batrell in Havana: An Appendix Essay; Acknowledgments; Translator's Notes; Works Cited; IndexIn 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the Cuban War of Independence. After the war ended in 1898, Batrell taught himself to read and write and published a memoir of his wartime experiences, Para la Historia . Originally published in 1912-the same year in which the Cuban government massacred more than 5,000 Afro-Cubans-this work of both protest and patriotism is the onlyBlacksCubaBiographySoldiersCubaBiographyCubaHistoryRevolution, 1895-1898Personal narrativesBlacksSoldiers972.91/05Batrell Ricardob. 1880.1710820Sanders Mark A.1963-1092407MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827463603321A black soldier's story4101718UNINA