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

Title
Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution / Ada Ferrer, New York University.
Author
Ferrer, Ada
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description
xiv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Alternative Title
Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Haitian Revolution and Cuban slave society -- "A colony worth a kingdom" : Cuba's sugar revolution in the shadow of Saint-Domingue -- "An excess of communication" : the capture of news in a slave society -- An unlikely alliance : Cuba and the Black auxiliaries -- Revolution's disavowal : Cuba and a counter-revolution of slavery -- "Masters of all" : echoes of Haitian independence in Cuba -- Atlantic crucible : 1808 between Haiti and Spain -- A Black kingdom of this world : making history, imagining revolution in Havana, 1812 -- Epilogue: Haiti, Cuba and history : afterlives of antislavery and revolution.
Call Number
Sc E 15-908
ISBN
  • 9781107029422 (hardback)
  • 1107029422 (hardback)
  • 9781107697782 (paperback)
  • 1107697786 (paperback)
LCCN
2014019409
OCLC
881469341
Author
Ferrer, Ada, author.
Title
Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution / Ada Ferrer, New York University.
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 15-908
JFE 15-6643
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