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

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

Title remainder

Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution

Statement of responsibility

Ada Ferrer

Creator

• Ferrer, Ada

Author

• Ferrer, Ada

Subject

• Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century
• Colonial administrators
• Colonial administrators -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
• Counterrevolutionaries
• Counterrevolutionaries -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
• Cuba
• Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1810-1899
• Cuba -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• Haiti
• Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Influence
• 1791 - 1899
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Plantation owners
• Plantation owners -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
• Political science
• Race relations
• Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804)
• Revolutions
• Revolutions -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Political aspects
• Slavery -- Political aspects -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
• Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1804-1844
• Antislavery movements

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.3/6209729109034

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HT1076

LC item number

.F47 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography