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Freedom's Mirror - Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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Freedom's Mirror - Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most
radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves
succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state.
Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the
events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary
emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the
devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void
left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of
slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent 'another Haiti' from
happening in their own territory. 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 creatively 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.
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