The Influence of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, 1791-1804
FAIN: FA-36340-00
Ada Ferrer
New York University (New York, NY 10012-1019)
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Associated Products
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Book)Title: Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Author: Ada Ferrer
Abstract: 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.
Year: 2014
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Prizes
Frederich Katz Prize for the best book in Latin American History
Date: 1/1/2015
Organization: American Historical Association
Abstract: The Friedrich Katz Prize is awarded annually to the best book published in English focusing on Latin America, including the Caribbean. Awarded for the first time in 2014, the prize honors honors Friedrich Katz, an Austrian-born specialist in Latin American history, whose nearly 50-year career inspired dozens of students and colleagues in the field.
Wesley-Logan Prize for the best book in African Diaspora history
Date: 1/1/2015
Organization: American Historical Association
Abstract: The Wesley-Logan Prize jointly sponsored by the AHA and the ASALH for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement, and adjustment, and the return of peoples originally from Africa. This award was established in 1993 and is awarded annually.
James Rawley Prize for the best book in Atlantic World History
Date: 1/1/2015
Organization: American Historical Association
Abstract: The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History was created in 1998 in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. It is offered annually to recognize outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century. The prize was established in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery
Date: 1/1/2015
Organization: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Race, and Resistance
Abstract: Each year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition presents the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding nonfiction book in English on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements.
Haiti Illumination Book Prize
Date: 1/1/2015
Organization: Haitian Studies Association
Abstract: Book prize in social sciences