Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (died 1874)

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Cuban revolutionary and plantation owner (1819–1874)

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Cespedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War (1868–1878).…