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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... blacks and mulattoes in colonial soci- ety and to their greater ability ( as compared to their counterparts in the English or French colonies ) to make their way upward in that society . But this was far from the original intent of ...
... blacks and whites.14 The revolt was repressed by Bahian police before it had even begun . But free black desires ... blacks and mulattoes . A Portuguese observer caught in the city during the revolt recalled how " the half - castes ...
... Afro - Colombian river boatmen de- manded that " we ... be treated like citizens of a republic and not like the slaves of a sultan . " Afro - Panamanian Liberals denounced the " slow and imperfect " in- tegration of blacks and mulattoes ...