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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... demand for laborers . 14 Export - oriented colonies in which Indians ( and , by the 1700s , Euro - Indian mestizos ) were the bulk of the labor force - Mexico , Peru , Colombia , Ecuador , Argentina - tended to have slave populations ...
... demand that royal officials remove their abusive overseer , and a group of 23 slaves in Guayama , Puerto Rico , to ... demands that the slaves had prepared and submitted . It is in- structive to compare the two lists , which lay out ...
... demand to areas of greater demand . In practice , this meant the transfer of slaves from urban areas to the plantation zones ; and as cof- fee cultivation in the southeastern provinces continued to expand while sugar production in the ...