Race to Revolution

"Gerald Horne is one of our most original historians." ~Ishmael Reed, John D. MacArthur Fellow

"In his path-breaking book, Gerald Horne reveals how the histories of Cuba and the United States, from the slave trade to Jim Crow and the Cold War, have always been closer and more turbulent than the ninety miles separating them across the Straits of Florida. Indeed, one cannot possibly understand the journey from bondage to freedom in America without wrestling with its consequences for the people of African descent in Cuba. Their story is our story, and thanks to Horne, we can now study its flow in a single, and profound, narrative." ~Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

"Gerald Hornes epic history will help many readers understand the special relationship between slavery, African Americans, and Cuba over the centuries . . . Horne is in the forefront of historians laboring to revise the entire story of the Americas until the broken pieces are mended." ~Tom Hayden, author of Inspiring Participatory Democracy

"Horne offers new insights and thoughtful analysis of the comparative and at time complementary circumstances of slavery and racial animus in Cuba and the United States, and in the process reveals a new dimension to the complexities of the Cuba-U.S. problematic . . . a very much welcome and important contribution to the scholarship on the workings of trans-national systems." ~Louis A. Pérez, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill