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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... lived on plantations employing between 60 and 100 slaves , and another quarter lived on plantations employing 100 or more . The av- erage number of slaves per farm was 65. In the newer sugar zones around Rio de Janeiro , plantations ...
... lived in family units headed by a male and female couple , and another 13 per- cent lived in single - headed family units . And surveying records on slave families on the plantations of Rio de Janeiro , “ one is surprised by the level ...
... lived on average 18 percent longer than blacks , to 6.8 years in 1991 , at which point whites lived 11 percent longer.38 Cultural Browning and Racial Democracy Just as important as these social and economic changes was the redefinition ...