FRIAS, Francisco, Count of Pozos Dulces, Cuban author, born in Havana in September 1809; died in Paris in 1877. He was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, to be educated, and in 1829 he returned to Cuba and pursued agricultural studies. In 1842 he went to Paris and remained there several years, devoting his time to mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

In 1848 he returned to Cuba, and in the next year the Havana lyceum awarded him a first prize for his "Memoria sobre la Industria Pecuaria." The governor of Havana imprisoned him for six months in Morro Castle in 1853, on account of his antislavery ideas, and banished him in 1854.

In 1861 he returned to Cuba and assumed the editorship of "E1 Siglo," the organ of the Liberal party. In November 1865 the Madrid government called a council to discuss political and financial reforms to be established in Cuba, and Count Pozos Dulces was among the delegates sent to Spain. There he advocated the introduction of white laborers and the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies.

He returned to Cuba in 1867, and went to Paris in 1869, where he published several political, economical, and scientific memoirs. He was the author of a work entitled "Population and the Cultivation of Land" (Paris), and "Colección de Escritos sobre Agricultura" (2 vols., 1860).

FRIAS, Francisco, Count of Pozos Dulces, Cuban author, born in Havana in September 1809; died in Paris in 1877. He was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, to be educated, and in 1829 he returned to Cuba and pursued agricultural studies. In 1842 he went to Paris and remained there several years, devoting his time to mechanics, physics, and chemistry. In 1848 he returned to Cuba, and in the next year the Havana lyceum awarded him a first prize for his " Memoria sobre la Industria Pecuaria." The governor of Havana imprisoned him for six months in Morro Castle in 1853, on account of his antislavery ideas, and banished him in 1854.

In 1861 he returned to Cuba and assumed the editorship of "E1 Siglo," the organ of the Liberal party. In November 1865 the Madrid government called a courtcil to discuss political and financial reforms to be established in Cuba, and Count Pozos Dulces was among the delegates sent to Spain. There he advocated the introduction of white laborers and the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies. He returned to Cuba in 1867, and went to Paris in 1869, where he published several political, economical, and scientific memoirs. He was the author of a work entitled "Population and the Cultivation of Land" (Paris), and "Coleccidn de Escritos sobre Agricultura" (2 vols., 1860).

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