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Get the Summary of Ada Ferrer's Cuba in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ada Ferrer's "Cuba" is a comprehensive history that intertwines the island's past with American history, starting from Columbus's arrival in 1492. The book details the violent colonization of Hispaniola and Cuba, the establishment of settlements, and the resistance of indigenous peoples like Hatuey. It explores the strategic importance of Havana,...
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In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from...
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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 neighboring colony...
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