Anselmo Suárez y Romero

Anselmo Suárez y Romero (c. 1818 – 1878) was a Cuban writer and novelist, better known for the first novel in Spanish about slavery in the Americas: ''Francisco'', based largely on ''"Autobiografía de un esclavo"'' by Juan Francisco Manzano (1835), the first autobiography written in Spanish by a slave. Provided by Wikipedia