# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-francisco-manzano
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:03:09.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-francisco-manzano"
name: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
slug: "juan-francisco-manzano"
description: "Juan Francisco Manzano was born a house slave in the province of Matanzas, Cuba during the colonial period. Manzano's father died before he was fifteen and his only remaining family was his mother, sister, and two brothers. Manzano worked as a page throughout his life. He wrote two works of poetry and his autobiography while still enslaved. The Autobiography of a Slave is one of only two personal accounts of 19th-century Cuban slavery, the only existing narrative accounts of slavery in Spanish America. The other is by Esteban Mesa Montejo. A modern translation (2025) exists, translated by Mauricio Di Paolantonio titled: Autobiography of a Slave: The Memoir of Juan Francisco Manzano."
tagline: "Writer (1797–1854)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1797"
deathDate: "1854"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.542369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Manzano"
    title: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "خوان فرنسيسكو مانزانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "خوان فرنسيسكو مانزانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Manzano"
    title: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Manzano"
    title: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Manzano"
    title: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Manzano"
    title: "Juan Francisco Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1710471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump