Julio Vizcarrondo
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Julio Vizcarrondo Coronado (San Juan de Puerto Rico, December 9 1829 - Madrid, 1889) was a politician of Spain and Puerto Rico.
From protestant religious beliefs, began an abolitionist campaign that leaded himself to exile in the USA (1850). He freed his own slaves in his hacienda in Puerto Rico and moved to Spanish metropolis. On April 2 1865, he formed the Sociedad Abolicionista Española (Spanish Abolitionist Society), which was his secretary. In a few months, founded also the newspaper El Abolicionista Español, both closed by general Narváez in 1866. He was among the revolutionaries of 1868. In January 24 of 1869, as president of Comité Central de la Unión Evangélica Española (Spanish Evangelic Union, a Protestant association), gained a local license for religious cult in Madrid. His activism with the Sociedad Abolicionista was important for obtain in the Parliament (Cortes) the Moret Law (called of vientres libres or libertad de vientres -freedom of wombs-, July 4 1870), and after (march 22 1873) the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico; but not in Cuba as also wanted. In borbonic Restoration in Spain, gone on searching abolition, but only after reobtain the freedom of action for his Sociedad Abolicionista (limited since 1875), obtaining from governments between 1880 and 1886 first the partial suppression of slavery with a Patronato, and finally the total suppression, after what the Sociedad Abolicionista was dissolved (1888). He won a place in Spanish parliament for the circumscription of Puerto Rico since 1886 to 1889, with an autonomist view. He developed a broad humanitary action, with Hospital de los Amigos de los Pobres (Friends of Poor's hospital) and Sociedad Protectora de los Niños (Children Protection Society) among others institutions.
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[edit] Referencies (in Spanish)
- Biografías de abolicionistas
- La Enciclopedia del protestantismo en España not developed yet.
- Conferencia El protestantismo en España y su compromiso con la sociedad, by Gabino Fernández Campos, that regrets that he is una figura prácticamente desconocida en España (almost unknown in Spain).
