Esteban Montejo

Esteban Mesa Montejo (1860-1965) had been a runaway Cuban slave. He told his story to the Cuban ethnologist Miguel Barnet in taped interviews carried out in 1963. Barnet edited the transcripts and published them in 1966, as Biografía de un cimarrón. An English translation has been published as Biography of a runaway slave and The autobiography of a runaway slave.