SLAVERY CUBA: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a Cuban hero who freed slaves and leaded the declaration of Cuban Independence in 1868. A good D.S., `C.m.de Cespedes´, one page, 4to, Bayamo, 27th December 1868, in Spanish. The partially printed document bears an attractive revolutionary vignette to the heading and the printed title beneath ''Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Captain General of the Liberator Army of Cuba and in charge of its Provisional Government'', and to the left border the printed nine articles of the Decree of conditioned abolition of slavery. Cespedes issues and grants this certificate of emancipated security, permitting free displacement of the entitled former slave. The certificate states that it is issued to Teresa de la Jesne, a maid, coming from Santa Barbara, of sixty years, and black skin colour. Countersigned, also bearing a blue ink stamp at the base of the Bayamo government alongside a blind embossed sea. Overall age wear, with slightly trimmed edges and few small pinholes. About G