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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... owners ' abuse and mistreatment of slaves , and therefore some of the causes of the rising incidence of slave flight and rebellion.73 Slave owners angrily rejected the laws as unwarranted state interference in their private affairs ...
... Owners characterized such collective actions as rebellion and in- subordination ; but in fact these slaves were not rebelling against official author- ity or seeking to escape or overturn slavery . Rather , they were appealing to that ...
... owners . Masters in Argentina and Chile flooded govern- ment offices with appeals for exemptions . Many were caught trying to conceal their slaves from recruiters , often by removing them from the city to rural hacien- das.22 Slave owner ...