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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... military service in part for material reasons , in- cluding pension rights , exemption from tribute payments , and access to military courts , which tended to be more lenient than civilian courts with soldiers and of- ficers accused of ...
... military service repre- sented the most likely way to obtain their freedom . Slave recruits did become lib- ertos ( freedmen ) upon entering the army , but this was conditional upon success- ful completion of their term of military ...
... military strong- man Fulgencio Batista . A lower - class Afro - Cuban from Oriente province ( he was ten years old at the time of the PIC uprising in 1912 ) , Batista was a leader of the Sergeants ' Revolt of 1933 , in which low ...