"A not-so-common wind": Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolutions in Cuba and Brazil

From its publication in 1979, Eugene Genovese's From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Atlantic World created a series of discussions around the character of slave revolts in the Americas before and after the Age of Democratic Revolutions. This article looks at the origins and main positions within this debate, including the very concept of "Age of Revolution," and attempts to bring the Brazilian and Cuban cases into the equation. The results, predictably, are not in line with Genovese's propositions. The geographic, chronological, and ethnic particularities of Brazil and Cuba show two specific cases that do not fit into preconceived models. The author suggests that they need to be studied as such.