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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... efforts were only partially successful , but they provoked strong reaction among colonial elites , who increas- ingly came to see Spain as their enemy rather than their protector.117 As the same time that Spain sought to curtail the ...
... efforts to escape from slavery . Colonial laws guaranteeing slaves ' right to manumission remained in effect after independence , and slaves continued to pursue freedom through self - purchase and other arrangements . As during the ...
... efforts to hire newly freed libertos to work on his plantation . I went looking for blacks in the city Who might want to rent themselves out . I spoke to them humbly : " Blacks , " I said , “ do you want to work ? " They looked at me ...