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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... Further depressing the slave population's replacement rates was the sexual im- balance among Africans imported into ... further reduced the ability of that population to reproduce itself , which in turn increased the need for further im ...
... further inland . In the Congo and Angola , trade routes stretched 300 to 400 miles into the interior of the continent , a journey of several months . In West Africa sources of supply remained closer to the coast ; even here , however ...
... Further south , quilombos spread through the hills and mountains outside Rio de Janeiro as Africans poured into the city or passed through it on their way to the sugar and coffee plantations . In 1823 the governor ordered “ a general ...