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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... civil wars convulsing Spanish America at the same time , and they created the same sorts of opportuni- ties for slaves to escape the plantations and fight for their freedom . In Brazil this civil violence did not lead to emancipation ...
... civil wars , and the anti - oli- garchical content of radical liberalism , all came together to produce a dramatic realignment of the balance of power among landowners , slaves , libertos , and peasants . That realignment made it ...
... civil rights movement . This resemblance was no accident . Over the course of the 1900s , educated and politically active Afro - Latin Americans tended to pay close attention to the state of racial politics in the United States . When ...