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Because of being a runaway I never knew my parents. I never even saw them. But this is not sad, because it is true.... I was a runaway from birth.
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I think trees' shadows must be like men's spirits. The spirit is the reflection of the soul.
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I say I don't want to die so I can fight in all the battles to come. And I'm not going into the trenches or using any of those modern weapons. A machete will do for me.
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When slavery ended I stopped being a runaway.. I realized from the way people were cheering and shouting that slavery had ended, so I came out of the forest. They were shouting "We free now." But I didn't join in; I thought it might be a lie.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Esteban Montejo
Born:
1860
Died:
1965
(aged 105)
Bio:
Esteban Mesa Montejo was a runaway Cuban slave. He told his story to the Cuban ethnologist Miguel Barnet in taped interviews carried out in 1963. Barnet edited the transcripts and published them in 1966, as Biografía de un cimarrón.
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