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Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality... Read Full Overview

Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality... Read Full Overview