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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... officials initially encouraged such assaults . When royal forces retook Cartagena in 1815 , they then sought to reestablish order in the countryside and to rein in the marauding slaves , but they were unable to do so . By 1820 the ...
... officials in 1843 described a substantial segment of the free black population that lived " comfortably and , as they say , wears a clean shirt every day .... Most of them know how to read and write and carry out the skilled trades ...
... official tourist itineraries — just as Brazilian and Cuban officials had done with Carnaval in the 1930s . The controls and restrictions that had kept Santería semiclandestine in the 1960s and 1970s were lifted , with both the ...