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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... early 1800s , runaway slave communities , black militias , and African - based mutual aid societies and religious congregations . By the late 1800s and early 1900s , middle - class Afro - Latin Americans were creating a rich array of ...
... early 1800s ) . African slaves had barely begun to work on sugar plantations in Santo Domingo when in 1522 they first rose up . That rebellion was put down within several days , but a number of the survivors and other runaways fled into ...
... early as 1900 the ranks of the colonato were overwhelmingly white and became even more so as time went on.47 Withdrawing in the face of the plantations ' advance , many Afro - Cubans - es- pecially those recently freed ex - slaves with ...