He was born in Santiago, Cuba, on June 25, 1841.Sitio Web de Cubavision Internacional (De la Prensa) A former carpenter, he later became a black folk hero, renowned for ending the business of slavehunter Miguel Pérez Céspedes. His father, Narciso Veranes, was a freed slave and did not want his children have his name, so Guillermó took his mother's last name, Dominga Moncada.
