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Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, a foundational piece in both the Afro-Hispanic and Cuban narrative, is probably the text which played the key role for the antislavery intellectuals who gathered around the liberal and reformist writer, Domingo del Monte. This work which treats the Manzano’s miserable life as slave was written in Cuba in 1835 by the request of Del Monte in order to promote the cause of abolition to the world outside Cuba. But the Manzano’s original version was corrected by a member of Del Monte’s circle, Anselmo Suárez y Romero and translated with some alterations into English by Richard Madden, which means that Manzano’s Autobiography was manipulated. Such interventions show a kind of rejection to the intellectual slave who can be localized between master and slave. Based on this account, this article attempts to reveal the signification of the mediation and the interstice to illuminate the power relation which affects the black slave intellectual.
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Juan Francisco Manzano, Anti-Slavery Narrative, Writing of Slave
