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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... continued far beyond emancipation and the abolition of slavery . And forms of behavior that originated during slavery - negotiation with powerful pa- trons , collective labor actions , the struggle to form families , African - based cul ...
... continued . 19 Elite social clubs and civic organizations remained almost exclusively white or fought to become so , as in the case of the Sociedad de Amigos del País in Caracas , which in 1834 pro- posed to bar pardos from membership ...
... continued to invoke it years and decades later as a heroic example of worker struggle.96 In Cuba , unlike the rest of Latin America , colonial caste laws remained in ef- fect for most of the 1800s , leading Spanish artisans to try to ...