When Barnet met him, Montejo was living at the Veterans’ Home. Barnet conducted numerous interviews with him, following anthropological methods of inquiry and analysis. For example, he used an electronic voice recorder to capture the nuances and tones of Montejo’s talks, so that he could more accurately convey it in writing. In 1966, Barnet published Montejo’s story as "Biografía de un cimarrón" (Biography of a Maroon). It was also translated into English and published that year in the United Kingdom and Australia as "Autobiography of a Runaway Slave." It was later translated and published in the United States in English in 1994 as "Biography of a Runaway Slave."