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Félix Tanco y Bosmeniel (Jan 28, 1797–1871, was a writer, poet, and novelist, better known for the first fictional story about slavery in the Americas: Petrona y Rosalía.

Born Félix Manuel de Jesús Tanco y Bosmeniel, in Bogotá, Colombia, he arrived in Cuba at a very young age.

He was considered the most radical writer of the epoch speaking against the injustices committed by the colonial government. He wrote at length against slavery and the despotic treatment that many blacks suffered under its authoritarian rule.

In the narrative of his masterpiece Petrona y Rosalía, he spoke about the cruelty inflicted onto the slaves by the ruling master class that was backed by the colonial government. He spoke against the white elitism that predominated in society, which was always protected by a group with special interests in the promulgation and the expansion of the slave trade.

In 1834, while speaking up against the social inequities, Tanco was charged in the judicial court by Governor Miguel Tacón y Rosique for writing an article about slavery. The article had been published in the literary magazine Aurora de Matanzas that same year. In the article, Tanco respectfully urged the Governor to eradicate, among other things, gambling, bribes, and the slave trade. The governor thought that the article was an insult to his authoritative rank, so he charged him with insubordination against the government.

Bibliography

• Tanco, Félix (1833). Ignacio Herrera Davila (ed.). Rimas Americanas. Imprenta de Palmer.
• Tanco Bosmeniel, Félix M. (1870). Portable y definitivo porvenir de la isla de Cuba. p. 15.
• Tanco Bosmeniel, Félix M. (1980). Petrona y Rosalia. Editorial Letras Cubanas. p. 48.
• Salvador Bueno, ed. (1975). Cuentos Cubanos del siglo XIX. Petrona y Rosalia: Editorial Arte y Literatura.
• Manuel Mesa Rodriguez, ed. (1957). Centón Epistolario de Domingo del Monte, VII (1823–1843). Epistolario de Félix Tanco y Bosmeniel a Domingo del Monte: Editorial La Habana:imprenta de "El Siglo XX". p. 198.

Literary criticism of Félix Tanco's publications

• Bueno, Salvador (1988). Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. La novela antiesclavista en Cuba de 1835 a 1839. p. 169.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• El negro en la novela hispanoamericana. La primitiva narración antiesclavista en Cuba de 1835 a 1839: Editorial Letras Cubanas. 1986.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Escoto, José Augusto (1916). Revista Histórica Crítíca y Bibliográfica de Literatura Cubana. Félix Manuel Tanco adversario de José de la Luz en la polémica sobre el Eclecticismo. p. 408.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ghorbal, Karim (2012). "Un radical discret : l'esclavage dans la pensée singulière de Félix Tanco Bosmeniel". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez. 42 (1): 227–249. doi:10.4000/mcv.4428.
• Williams, Luis (1990). Literary Bondage. Slavery in Cuban narrative. University of Texas Press.
• Mesa Rodriguez, Manuel I. (1957). Centón Epistolario de Domingo del Monte (1823–1843). Partida bautismal de Félix Manuel Tanco y Bosmeniel: Editorial La Habana:imprenta de "El Siglo XX".
• Schulman, Iván A. (1977). Homenaje a Lydia Cabrera. Tanco y la literatura antiesclavista: Barcelona; Ediciones Universal. p. 317.
• Triana y Antorveza, Humberto (2005). Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades. Dos colombianos en Cuba:José Fernández Madrid y Félix Manuel Tanco Bosmeniel. p. 65.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ibáñez, Pedro María (1907). Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades. Bocetos biográficos. p. 574.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Rodríguez-Arenas, Flor María (1993). Petrona y Rosalía. Félix Manuel Tanco y Bosmeniel.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Rodríguez-Arenas, Flor María (1996). "Folios:Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional". Literatura colombiana y de colombianos (Colonia y Siglo XIX): 55. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

References

1. Rodriguez-Arenas, Flor María (2006). Bibliografía de La Literatura Colombiana del Siglo XIX- Tomo II(M-Z). Stockcero, Inc. p. 512. ISBN 978-987-1136-47-6.
2. ^ Gomariz, José (2005). Colonialismo e independencia cultural: la narración del artista e intelectual hispanoamericano del siglo XIX. Verbum Editorial. p. 169. ISBN 978-84-7962-327-2.
3. Fornaris, Jose; Luaces, Joaquín Lorenzo (1861). José Socorro de León (ed.). Cuba poética: Colección escogida de las composiciones en verso de los poetas cubanos desde Zequeira hasta nuestros días. Impr. de la viuda de Barcina y comp. pp. 62, 235.
4. Ghorbal, Karim (2012) "Un radical discret: l'esclavage dans la pensée singulière de Félix Tanco Bosmeniel". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez. Nouvelle série 42.1: 227-249.
5. Branche, Jerome (2006). Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature. University of Missouri Press. p. 127.
6. Morales y Morales, Vidal (1901). Iniciadores y primeros mártires de la revolución cubana. Capítulo VIII: Impr. Avisador comercial. p. 680.
7. Domingo del Monte. (Aug 3, 1834) Carta de Domingo del Monte a Tomás Gener. Matanzas.

• 1797 births
• 1871 deaths
• Cuban male poets
• Viceroyalty of New Granada people
• 19th-century Cuban poets