1. Julio Vizcarrondo Coronado was a Puerto Rican abolitionist, journalist, politician and religious leader.
17 Facts About Julio Vizcarrondo
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Julio Vizcarrondo played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Moret Law which in 1873 abolished slavery in Puerto Rico.
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Julio Vizcarrondo was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Dr Jose Bonifacio Julio Vizcarrondo y Ortiz de Zarate and Maria Josefa Coronado y Martinez.
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Julio Vizcarrondo's family were the owners of slaves who worked their Hacienda.
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Julio Vizcarrondo received his primary education in the capital city of Puerto Rico and his secondary education in Madrid, Spain and Paris, France.
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In 1850, Julio Vizcarrondo arrived in New York City and joined the "International Conference of Paris against Slavery" as Secretary of the Permanent Committee of said organization.
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In 1854, Julio Vizcarrondo returned to Puerto Rico and continued writing articles and expressing his ideas.
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Julio Vizcarrondo granted his slaves their freedom and became a defender of the rights of Black slaves in Puerto Rico.
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Julio Vizcarrondo often denounced, in the island's courts, the slave owners who mistreated their slaves, thereby making many enemies.
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Julio Vizcarrondo denounced what he felt was the mistreatment of the Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rico in general by the colonial Spanish government.
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Julio Vizcarrondo continued to make enemies because of the liberal ideas which he expressed in his newspaper.
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Julio Vizcarrondo published various books on math, history and geography which were used in his school.
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Julio Vizcarrondo published the Elementos de Historia y Geografia de Puerto Rico which was made into a textbook.
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In 1863, Julio Vizcarrondo moved to Madrid where he joined other Puerto Ricans and Cubans who were abolitionists.
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Julio Vizcarrondo helped in the preparation of the Liberal Revolution as Secretary of the revolutionary committee of Madrid.
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Julio Vizcarrondo returned to Spain shortly after the revolution triumphed.
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At the Spanish Parliament, Julio Vizcarrondo recommended an autonomy modeled after the type that Canada had at that moment.