Juan Francisco Manzano Quotes

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Oh, though great scourge and terror of our race, While thy strong hand bows down the proudest head, Filling the earth with cries in every place, And grief and wailing o'er the silent dead.

Juan Francisco Manzano

Yes, tho' in gloom and sadness I may rise,
One blessed strain can soothe my troubled soul,
No sooner wakened than with streaming eyes,
Upward I look, and there I seek my goal.

Juan Francisco Manzano

Behold, his conscience! Oh what deep repose,
It slumber in one long deadly doze:
Why do you wonder that it thus does sleep;
That crime should prosper, or that guilt so deep,
So long unfelt should seem unscathed, in fine,
Should know no shame, and fear no law divine.

Juan Francisco Manzano

In vain I was forbidden to write, for when everybody went to bed, I used to light a piece of candle, and when at my leisure I copied the best verses thinking that I could imitate these, I would become a poet.

Juan Francisco Manzano

I resolved to venture on my escape, and in case of detection, to suffer for something.... I saddled the horse for the first time in my life, put on the bridle, but with such trembling that I hardly knew what I was about.. When I was going away, I heard the sound of a voice saying "God bless you, make haste."

Juan Francisco Manzano

Juan Francisco Manzano

Juan Francisco Manzano

Born: 1797

Died: 1854 (aged 57)

Bio: Juan Francisco Manzano was born a slave in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. He wrote two works and started his autobiography while still enslaved. He obtained his freedom in 1836 and later wrote a book of poems and a play.

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