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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 neighbouring colony and rushed to prevent the same 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 example of slaves destroying slavery. By linking the two stories 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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Freedom's Mirror
• Subtitle: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
• Author: Ada Ferrer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9781107697782
• ISBN: 1107697786
• ID: 04768949
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 566 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 2014

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