José Martí’s mother has tried to free…

José Martí’s mother has tried to free her son (still in his minority) by writing letters to the government; his father had gone to a lawyer friend for legal support, but all efforts had failed.

Eventually Martí had fallen ill; his legs had been severely lacerated by the chains that bound him.

As a result, he had been transferred to another part of Cuba known as Isla de Pinos instead of further imprisonment.

Following this, the Spanish authorities decide in January 1871 to repatriate him to Spain, where he will be allowed to continue his studies with the hopes that studying in Spain will renew his loyalty to Spain.

Instead, he will eventually become a leading Latin American intellectual and Cuba’s foremost national hero as a primary architect of the 1895-98 War of Independence.