SLAVERY: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a Cuban hero who freed slaves and leaded the declaration of Cuban Independence in 1868. A good A.L.S., `C.m.de Cespedes´, one page, small 4to, Bayamo, 27th December 1868, in Spanish. The document bears an attractive revolutionary vignette to the heading and the printed title beneath ''Liberator Army of Cuba and its Provisional Government''. Cespedes on this Manumission missive states `En esta fecha y como encargado del Gobierno Provisional, he otorgado carta de Libertad al negro nombrado Jonas, como de 23 años de edad, natural de Cuba…´ (Translation: ''On this date, and in my capacity as representative of the Provisional Government, I have granted freedom to the negro named Jonas, of 23 years old approximately, native of Cuba…'') The document bears to the front a blind embossed seal and to the lower left corner an ink stamp of the ''free town council of Bayamo''. Overall age wear, with trimmed edges and few small pinholes. About G