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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... Creole elites , who , despite Spanish laws to the con- trary , had thoroughly infiltrated the colonial administration through means both legal ( by purchasing positions in the bureaucracy ) and illegal ( bribery and influ- ence peddling ) ...
... Creole mas- ters ' property . When royalist forces were finally driven out of the region in 1817 , reported a local Creole official , “ many of these slaves followed them ; some re- turned to their masters , and others remain at large ...
... Creole blacks as well , of the growing African population and its intensifying opposition to slavery . As the number of Africans arriving in Brazil , Cuba , and Puerto Rico in- creased in the 1790s and early 1800s , so did the incidence ...