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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... majority , by 1800 , were free . No longer directly constrained by slav- ery , free blacks and mulattoes pressed on to create the social and cultural institu- tions - Catholic religious brotherhoods , African religious congregations ...
... majority ( between 18 and 21 , depending on the country ) , they became free citizens of the republic . Free Womb laws were enacted either at the very beginning of the wars , as in Chile ( 1811 ) and Argentina ( 1813 ) , or at the very ...
... majority of the city's middle class ( which accounted for more than a quarter of the city's population ) was black and mu- latto . And in Costa Rica , observers noted the rise in the 1970s of a " new generation of black professionals ...