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Race to Revolution - The U. S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow (Paperback)
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Race to Revolution - The U. S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow (Paperback)
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List price R635
Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
You Save R64 (10%)
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The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined
and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the
two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked
interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery
was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and
the United States, both in terms of each nation's internal
political and economic development and in the interactions between
the small Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North. Horne
draws a direct link between the black experiences in two very
different countries and follows that connection through changing
periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were
crucial to Cuba's initial independence, and the relative freedom
they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States,
reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of both
nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave
rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years' Day in 1959,
shook the United States to its core. Based on extensive research in
Havana, Madrid, London, and throughout the U.S., Race to Revolution
delves deep into the historical record, bringing to life the
experiences of slaves and slave traders, abolitionists and sailors,
politicians and poor farmers. It illuminates the complex web of
interaction and infl uence that shaped the lives of many
generations as they struggled over questions of race, property, and
political power in both Cuba and the United States.
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