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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... Cubans were well represented at the middle and lower levels of the officer corps . The general commander of the rebel forces , Antonio Maceo , was Afro - Cuban , as were many of his most trusted subordinates . 105 During the war years ...
... Cuban conservatism , Havana's Diario de la Marina , ran weekly columns in which black journalists and contrib- utors ... Cuban veterans , including officers with distinguished records of service to the independence cause , found ...
... Cuban countryside , where the independence wars and the struggle against slav- ery had initiated the beginnings of mobilization among sugar workers . By 1902 Spanish anarchists and Afro - Cuban independence - war veterans had joined to ...