José Julián Acosta

José Julián Acosta ( born February 6, 1825 San Juan, Puerto Rico; † August 26, 1891 in San Juan, Puerto Rico ) was a Puerto Rican journalist and important representative of the abolitionist movement in Puerto Rico.

Life

Acosta was one of the best students of Rafael Cordero and the influence of his teacher, to mark his life. Later, he was a protégé of Father Rufo Manuel Fernández, who sent him to Madrid to study physics and mathematics. After graduating in 1851, he expanded his education in Paris, London and Berlin. In Germany he was a student of Alexander von Humboldt.

Upon his return to Puerto Rico, he became a Professor of Botany and Maritime Sciences and was Director of the Civil Institude of Secondary Education. He published the newspaper El Progreso out ( Progress ) and collaborated with many other liberal -oriented newspapers.

In 1867 he was a member of Segundo Ruiz Belvis with and Francisco Mariano Quiñones, a Puerto Rican Commission, which took part in the Overseas Information Committee in Madrid. There presented Acosta he presented his arguments for the abolition of slavery. In the same year he was admitted during his stay in the Royal Spanish Academy of History, after he, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico Fray Iñigo Abbad y had issued Lasierras Historia geografica.

After his return to the island Acosta, like many other liberal Puerto Ricans severely mistreated by the Spanish governor. As a result of the uprising Grito de Lares was suspected as a conspirator and General Pavia locked him in the dungeon of the fort San Felipe del Morro, although he was not involved in the failed revolt. Later he published the pamphlet Horas de Prisión (hours of captivity ), in which he described his experiences in prison.

In 1871 he was elected representative at the Spanish court, and in 1873 he became president of the liberal Reform Party, which he left a year later, because he was the Autonomist Party of Baldorioty Román de Castro joined. On March 22, 1873, he celebrated with the other abolitionists the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico.

After his death in 1891 he was buried in the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzi Cemetery in Old San Juan.

• Abolitionist
• Puerto Ricans
• Born in 1825
• Died in 1891
• Man