Breaking the Chains Forging the Nation
The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157442 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Horne (University of Houston, Houston, Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 152-153 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa021 |
| OpenAlex | W3038045958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This collection merits a salute: noteworthy is the labor of the editors, who selected scholars to write introductions of various sections of this informative book. In addition, the article submitted by the editor Fannie Rushing is outstanding. The afterword by W. F. Santiago-Valles, a sweeping analysis of hemispheric slave revolts and riveting unrest more generally, is alone worth the price of the book. This volume spans the period from a pivotal slave revolt in Cuba in 1812 (the U.S. historian Matt Childs's book The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (2006) is relied upon heavily in these pages) until 1912, when a sharp conflict with racist overtones erupted on the island. Childs's book received a Spanish translation, the gold standard for scholarship in this field. Interestingly, even though in the early period Cuba was under the jurisdiction of Spain and in the later period the island was for all intents and purposes administered from the U.S. mainland, sources from archives in Madrid and Washington are generally absent from the collection. This omission is unfortunate since revealing insights that shed light on the so-called race war of 1912 can be found at the University of Maryland in the voluminous files of the Cuba Company, which controlled the largest single foreign investment before the Cuban Revolution and, thus, had a strong interest in maintaining stability. Likewise, understanding the centuries-long jousting between Madrid and London is indispensable when examining the fate of slavery—and of “free” and enslaved Africans too—on the island. A glimpse of files on the Iberian peninsula is indispensable for a project of this kind
Art · Economic history · Jurisdiction · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Unrest · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |