Essay On Jose Marti

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Jose Marti was born on January 28, 1853 and died in 1895. He was born in Havana Cuba and was very passionate about his country. He was well known as a poet and a journalist. He spent his life fighting for Cuban independence. He died during a failed attempt to win freedom for Cuba. Jose Marti was born the son to poor Spanish immigrants. Jose Marti showed a talent for writing early on. He had several poems published by the time he was 15. Marti agreed with the supported efforts to separate with Spain, which Cuba was a colony of at the time. He committed himself to the cause of helping Cuba gain its independence. In high school he made a comment denouncing a pro Spanish classmate expressing support for the revolution and as a result he was …show more content…

Marti did not want Cuba to annex itself to the U.S. He did not want Cuba to be under the U.S. hold and even though the middle class Cubans supported this proposal. Many of the Cuban rallied around Marti because he understood how the people felt and he fought to help bring about change for them. He felt that the way the middle class Cubans treated the mulattoes and black Cubans was unjust. The black working class Cubans was treated unfairly. He wanted to build a government around the culture and needs of the people. Marti developed a body of thought centering on liberalism, republicanism, and a resistance to the rising U.S. power. While living in the United States he saw how they treated their southern neighbors and felt that they were pretty arrogant to be interfering in the affairs of the world while at home they (the U.S.) had their own pressing issues to deal …show more content…

They met while Marti was in Mexico. They had a son together named Jose. Marti returned to Cuba when a general amnesty was declared in 1878 after the Ten Years' War had ended. He tried to practice law there, but the government refused to let him. Marti worked as a teacher instead. Another uprising, erupted a year later, many of the farmers, and slaves clashed with Spanish troops in Santiago de Cuba. Marti was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the wake of the rebellion. Again, he was forced to leave his homeland. He was banished again for supporting the idea of Cuban independence. Marti did not feel like a traitor to Spain but he truly believed his cause was

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