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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... final emancipation , while retaining slave owner support by obligating the government to pay full compensation for the freed slaves.41 In Peru liberal guerrilla leaders recruited heavily among runaway slaves . The 1850 election of ...
... final emancipation by 1888 and wages and improved working conditions in the meantime . In actions recalling slaves ' responses 100 years earlier to the Instructions of 1789 , Cuban slaves bombarded Spanish officials with lawsuits ...
... final abolition were further reduced by the Electoral Reform of 1881 , which reinforced landowner control over elections by cutting the number of Brazilians eligible to vote from somewhat over 1 million to 150,000 . 100 Faced with the ...