MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014019409
003 DLC
005 20150407082829.0
008 140520s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014019409
020 $a9781107029422 (hardback)
020 $a9781107697782 (paperback)
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050 00 $aHT1076$b.F47 2014
082 00 $a306.3/6209729109034$223
100 1 $aFerrer, Ada.
245 10 $aFreedom's mirror :$bCuba and Haiti in the age of revolution /$cAda Ferrer, New York University.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 377 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zCuba$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aHaiti$xHistory$yRevolution, 1791-1804$xInfluence.
651 0 $aHaiti$xPolitics and government$y1804-1844.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRevolutions$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCounterrevolutionaries$zCuba$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPlantation owners$zCuba$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aColonial administrators$zCuba$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aCuba$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aCuba$xPolitics and government$y1810-1899.