fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: Guillermo Moncada (1841-1895) was an Afro-Cuban military leader and the namesake of the well-known Moncada Barracks which were unsuccessfully attacked by Fidel Castro’s men on July 26, 1953. Moncada, nicknamed “el gigante de ébano” (the ebony giant) and “Guillermón” (big Guillermo) was born in Santiago de Cuba at a time when Black slavery was still legal and widespread in the island. He fought alongside Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo Grajales, and Calixto García in the various Cuban independent struggles of the late nineteenth century—the Ten Years War, the Little War, and the Cuban War of Independence of 1895—and was imprisoned by the colonial Spanish government on two separate occasions. Moncada, who once worked as a carpenter, is also renowned for killing Miguel Pérez y Céspedes, the most feared “rancheador” or professional fugitive slave hunter in eastern Cuba.
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Guillermo Moncada (1841-1895) was an Afro-Cuban military leader and the namesake of the well-known Moncada Barracks which were unsuccessfully attacked by Fidel Castro’s men on July 26, 1953. Moncada, nicknamed “el gigante de ébano” (the ebony giant) and “Guillermón” (big Guillermo) was born in Santiago de Cuba at a time when Black slavery was still legal and widespread in the island. He fought alongside Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo Grajales, and Calixto García in the various Cuban independent struggles of the late nineteenth century—the Ten Years War, the Little War, and the Cuban War of Independence of 1895—and was imprisoned by the colonial Spanish government on two separate occasions. Moncada, who once worked as a carpenter, is also renowned for killing Miguel Pérez y Céspedes, the most feared “rancheador” or professional fugitive slave hunter in eastern Cuba.

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