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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... group of 23 slaves in Guayama , Puerto Rico , to lay down their tools and set off for town to complain to the corregidor ( a local Span- ish official ) .47 Sometimes groups of slaves would push further and attempt to renegotiate the ...
... group on which it depended for military and political support . A final factor favoring the ascension of the black ... groups : Afro - European mulattoes , Indo - European mestizos , and Afro - Indian zambos . And with each subsequent ...
... groups formed during 1974 and 1975 to discuss lit- erature produced by African and African - American writers , scholars , and ac- tivists . These groups were repressed by the police and never re - formed.94 In other Latin American ...