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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... Spanish law made it quite clear that neither slaves nor free blacks were the legal equals of whites . But subordination did not mean a complete absence of rights , and slaves repeatedly invoked the concept and even the terminology of ...
... Spanish - controlled western half of the island , Spain countered in 1870 with a Free Womb edict , the Moret Law . Under this law children born to slave mothers after September 1868 would serve their mother's master until age 22 , at ...
... Spanish Mulattoes and Blacks of Havana , " the officers drew a clear line between them- selves and the city's Africans and claimed a place in the " Spanish " sphere of colo- nial society . They then specified the achievements on which ...