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Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution

Ferrer, Ada

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\"The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the only slave rebellion in which slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state, making it perhaps the most radical revolution of the modern world. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba, barely fifty miles away, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. There, planters and authorities saw the devastation of their neighboring colony and rushed to prevent the same events from happening in Cuba by buttressing the institutions of slavery and colonial rule. Freedom's Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery. By linking two stories--the story of the Haitian Revolution and that of the rise of Cuban slave society--that are usually told separately, Ada Ferrer sheds fresh light on both of these crucial moments in Caribbean and Atlantic history\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Slavery Political aspects Cuba History 19th century. / Antislavery movements History 19th century. / Revolutions History 19th century. / Counterrevolutionaries Cuba History 19th century. / Plantation owners Cuba History 19th century. / Colonial administrators Cuba History 19th century. / Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Influence. / Haiti Politics and government 1804-1844. / Cuba Race relations History 19th century. / Cuba Politics and government 1810-1899.
• ISBN: 9781107029422, 1107029422, 9781107697782, 1107697786

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