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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... Indians of Brazil soon suffered the same holocaust that had befallen the Caribbean islands . Between 1500 and 1550 , the Indian populations of Hispaniola , Cuba , Jamaica , and Puerto Rico were annihilated by enslavement , ex- cessive ...
... Indians ( and , by the 1700s , Euro - Indian mestizos ) were the bulk of the labor force - Mexico , Peru , Colombia , Ecuador , Argentina - tended to have slave populations concentrated in subregions associ- ated with specific forms of ...
... Indians from the Atlantic coast to the central highlands . In fact no such law existed ; nevertheless , it was rare for West Indians to travel inland from Limón . West Indian train crews on the Limón to San José railway traveled only ...