Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000Oxford University Press, 2004 - 284 من الصفحات While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues. Spanning two centuries, this tour de force should be read by anyone interested in Latin American history, the history of slavery, and the African diaspora, as well as the future of Latin America. |
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... Caribbean islands . Between 1500 and 1550 , the Indian populations of Hispaniola , Cuba , Jamaica , and Puerto Rico were annihilated by enslavement , ex- cessive labor demands , and , most destructive of all , new European diseases to ...
... Caribbean , the new center of world sugar production . Beginning in the late 1600s , the British islands of Barbados and Jamaica , and then the French colony of Saint Domingue , had displaced Brazil as the leading sugar producers in the ...
... Caribbean coast . Each of these projects was undertaken by corporations based in the United States : in Cuba , by U.S. - owned sugar companies ; in Venezuela , by Standard Oil and other firms ; and in Panama , by the Panama Canal ...