Ferrer, Ada — Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) Source Information

Ferrer, Ada — Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) Source Information Author: Ada Ferrer Full Title: Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 2014 Type: Secondary Source — Atlantic history, comparative slavery, Cuba-Haiti relations Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Extracted Text: No verified extracted text file currently present in research/source-texts/extracted/ Local source file: Not currently located in the vault or local Rasin archive under a verifiable filename; direct file-level verification remains pending Status Text extracted: No verified vault text file currently present Review pass: Graph-expansion consistency pass completed (2026-03-31) — Cuba-Haiti mirror framework, refugee circulation, sugar expansion, the Aponte conspiracy, and Haitian antislavery foreign policy fully integrated into the canonical graph; direct file-level verification remains pending because the raw source file is not currently located Chapter notes: ferrer freedoms mirror ch notes Graph review in this pass: Source adds critical Atlantic-Cuba dimension to the existing haitian revolution cluster; strengthens august 1791 uprising, jean jacques dessalines, toussaint louverture, jean pierre boyer, bolivar haiti, and atlantic capitalism; created francisco arango y parreño and aponte conspiracy 1812 Overview Freedom's Mirror is the vault's definitive treatment of how the Haitian Revolution shaped Cuba. Ferrer's central argument is expressed in her title: Saint-Domingue and Cuba were mirror images in the age of revolution. What was destroyed in one — the plantation system built on enslaved labor — was simultaneously created in the other.