History in faces. José Antonio Saco and its time
The article explores the life and work of the famous well-known Cuban political and public figure, historian, liberal educator José Antonio Saco (1797-1879). Saco was a leader of the second phase of the Cuban reformism of the 19th century, a supporter of the evolutionary pahse of development of Cuba, devoted all its life to the fight for the liberalization of the Spanish colonial regime, end to the slave trade, against annexation of Cuba to the United States, for socio-economic transformation of the economy of the island. All his works should reflect the real history of Cuba, inscribed within the world-historical whom process.