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Antonio Medina

MEDINA, Antonio (may-dee'-nah), Cuban author, born in Havana in 1824; died in 1884. He was of African descent, but was born free. He opened in 1861 a public school for colored boys, where many of the African race received free education, and he worked in other ways for the elevation of the colored people. He showed from his youth a love for poetry, and in 1849 published a drama. "Ladoiska." He was also the author of a volume of poems (1851) ; "E1 Guajiro generoso" (1858); and "Jacobo Gerondi," a drama (1880); and wrote two other dramas, "La Maldicidn " and "La hija del pueblo."

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