José Antonio Saco

He was the author of many of the most resonant works in the Cuban political, economic and social world of the first half of that century. He is also one of the most controversial figure in Cuban history. His economic, social and political ideas constitute an obligatory reference in any analysis that is made about the destinies of the Greater Antilles. Political decentralization and criticism of the Spanish colonial system, the most portentous anti-annexationist work with respect to the United States, social criticism and the first sociological works carried out in Cuba and the most complete history of slavery written in the 19th century, not only in Cuba , but in the world, make the work of José Antonio Saco an essential instrument for the study of the Island and the knowledge of another vision of the world born from America and for the world.