Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow - Gerald Horne

Descriere Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow - Gerald Horne

\n \nThe histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined \nand have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, \nhistorian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between \nthe two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections \namong slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was \ncentral to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the \nUnited States, both in terms of each nation's internal political and \neconomic development and in the interactions between the small \nCaribbean island and the Colossus of the North. \n \nHorne draws a direct link between the black experiences in two \nvery different countries and follows that connection through \nchanging periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black \nCubans were crucial to Cuba's initial independence, and the relative \nfreedom they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the \nUnited States, reinforcing radical politics within the black communities \nof both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions \nthat gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years' Day \nin 1959, shook the United States to its core. \n \n \n \nBased on extensive research in Havana, Madrid, London, and \nthroughout the U.S., Race to Revolution delves deep into the \nhistorical record, bringing to life the experiences of slaves and \nslave traders, abolitionists and sailors, politicians and poor farmers. \nIt illuminates the complex web of interaction and infl uence \nthat shaped the lives of many generations as they struggled over \nquestions of race, property, and political power in both Cuba and \nthe United States.\n

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9781583674451

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