Abstract
This chapter examines transnational connections between the Ten Years’ War in Cuba, the American Civil War, and the politics of Reconstruction in the United States. It considers such topics as the abolition of slavery, the transition to free labor, race relations, and insurgent military strategy in both Cuba and the United States. It pays special attention to the participation in the Cuban insurrection of former-Confederate general Thomas Jordan and the ex-Union officer and diplomat Federico Fernández Cavada. Both men rose to hold the position of general-in-chief of Cuba’s insurgent armies, but the two Americans held very different views on emancipation, the arming of non-white soldiers, the employment of guerrilla tactics, the treatment of loyalist property, and the future of American empire.
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