Status Updates From Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and ...

"But in Cuba itself...what we see is not an abstract and neat transition, but rather an extended, violent, and fraught passage between the first and second slavery. People in Cuba—some more than others—bore witness to the intensification of enslavement even as they observed the growing power of revolutionary antislavery, occupying as it were plural time and space in the history of global capitalism and slavery" (82).