AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
23.5.19
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Espanha
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CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL: (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'' ...

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110
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€110 - €170
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CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL: (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a Cuban hero who freed slaves and leaded the declaration of Cuban Independence in 1868. An excellent A.L.S., `C.m.de Cespedes´, one page, 8vo, Bayamo, 27th December 1868, in Spanish. The document bears a very attractive revolutionary vignette to the heading and the printed title beneath ''Liberator Army of Cuba and its Provisional Government''. Cespedes states `On this date, and in my capacity as representative of the Provisional Government, I have granted freedom to the negro named Nemesio, 16 years old…´ The document bears to the front a large blind embossed seal and to the lower left corner an ink stamp of the ''free town council of Bayamo''. Overall age wear, with trimmed edges and multiple former tears repaired to the verso. F £100-150