José Antonio Saco

José Antonio Saco y López Cisneros ( born May 7, 1797 in Bayamo, † September 26, 1879 in Barcelona) was a Cuban journalist and social scientist. He is regarded as one of the leading intellectual champion of the Cuban independence movement.

Life

José Antonio Saco studied philosophy and law at the Seminario San Basilio Magno and the Seminario San Carlos y San Ambrosio. After the revolution in Haiti, 1791-1803, was from this that time the world's largest sugar producer bought anything for the world market. The French sugar planters were partly emigrated to Cuba and from 1800 the cultivation of sugar cane and after a short time began was grown on every fertile soil sugarcane. Cuba experienced a boom in the slave society. An opponent of the slave society was Padre Félix Varela y Morales. José Antonio Saco was a pupil of Padre Félix Varela y Morales and founded with him the Mensajero Semanal. He was an opponent of annexation of Cuba by the United States, which in his time had many followers in Cuba.

1829 honored the Sociedad de Amigos del País Económicas Memorias sobre los Caminos the work de la Isla de Cuba by José Antonio Saco with a gold medal, 200 pesos and an honorary membership. In this work he proposed applying the policy experiences of England and the United States to Cuba. In 1830 he published Memorias sobre la Isla de Cuba en la vagancia in which it dealt with the slavery and the vagabondage.

José Antonio Saco was a teacher at the Colegio Buena Vista neighborhood in Havana. He appreciated the importance of a functioning public education system for the development prospects of the economy and society a high.

1834 made ​​him the governor Miguel Tacón y Rosique deport.

In exile, he married María Dolores Frías, the widow of Narciso López and sister of Francisco de Frias y Jacott (1809-1877), Conde de Pozos Dulces. In 1860 he returned briefly to Cuba. He died poor. His remains were transferred to Cuba on August 17, 1880 and was buried on 20 August 1880 in the Necropolis de Colon.

Publications

• Ideas sobre la incorporacion de Cuba en los Estados Unidos, 1848