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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... independence , the declaration of a republic based on electoral democracy , the abolition of slavery , and full equality between blacks and whites.14 The revolt was repressed by Bahian police before it had even begun . But free black ...
George Reid Andrews. free blacks . In 1837 the prohibition against the entry of Haitians into Cuba was ex- tended to free black foreigners from any country , as well as to black sailors , who were required either to remain on their ships ...
George Reid Andrews. island in the late 1840s found that even prosperous free blacks had been reduced to a state of submission quite close , in some ways , to that of the slaves : “ Always the black , whether slave or free , is obligated ...