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Saco, José Antonio, 1797-1879

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Personal name headingSaco, José Antonio, 1797-1879
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Variant(s)Saco y López-Cisneros, José Antonio, 1797-1879
López-Cisneros, José Antonio Saco y, 1797-1879
Cisneros, José Antonio Saco y López-, 1797-1879
Associated countryTrinidad
Birth date1797
Death date1879
Place of birthBayamo (Cuba)
Place of deathMadrid (Spain)
AffiliationSan Carlos Seminar (Havana, Cuba)
Profession or occupationLecturers Editors Historians Essayists
Found inLa formación de la identidad cubana (el debate Saco-La Sagra), 2005: p. 11 (José Antonio Saco; José Antonio Saco y López-Cisneros; b. 1797 in Bayamó, Cuba; d. 1879)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Saco, José Antonio; lecturer, magazine and journal editor / publisher, nationalist, historian, essayist; born 1797 in Bayamo, Cuba; received higher-level education in modern philosophy at the San Carlos seminar in Havana; asked to take over a seminar in philosophy (1821); traveled to New York and founded El Mensajero Quincenal (The Quarterly Messenger) (1828); was forced into exile in Trinidad for writing an article that identified him as a significant political critic and leader (1834); while in exile he wrote his greatest work, the five-volume Historia de la esclavitud (History of Slavery; 1875-1879); died 1879 in Madrid, Spain)