Esteban montejo biography
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Esteban montejo biography
Esteban Montejo
Esteban Montejo | |
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| Born | c. 1868 Las Villas, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire |
| Died | February 10, 1973(1973-02-10) (aged 112) |
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| Parent(s) | Emilia Montejo and Nazario |
Esteban Mesa Montejo (c.
1868 – February 10, 1973) was a Cubanslave who escaped to freedom before slavery was abolished on the island in 1886. He lived as a maroon (runaway slave) in the mountains until that time.
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He also served in the war of independence in Cuba. He is known for having his biography published in 1966, in both Spanish and English, several years before his death and when he was already at least in his 90s. He seems to have lived to be about 104.
In 1997 Michael Zeuske, a German historian and field researcher of Cuban slavery and life histories, found evidence of Esteban Montejo's real date of birth in the baptismal registers (in Sagua la Grande) - not 1860, but 1868 (December 26)[