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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... abolition of caste distinctions : " Indians , mulattos or other castes ... all will be known as Americans . " Following Hidalgo's defeat and execution early in 1811 , José María Morelos , himself a person of mixed African - Indian ...
... abolition of slavery , he was instrumental in bringing the slave trade to an end in 1850 and then in pushing the Free Womb law through Par- liament in 1871.100 It was the emperor's justice to which slaves appealed when they petitioned ...
... Abolition , 95–125 . Slaves also took over abandoned haciendas in Cartagena . Bell Lemus , Carta- gena de Indias , 89 . 21. Andrews , Afro - Argentines , 116–17 ; Feliú Cruz , Abolición en Chile , 75–80 ; Blanchard , Slavery and Abolition ...