“The whole afternoon was spent rejoicing as the demonstration spread across the city; no one walked alone for all San Juan was a single family.”

— José Martí

"The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico" (1893)

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Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

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