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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... plantation was 50 , with some employing up to 200. In Matanzas province in Cuba , which like Rio de Janeiro was experiencing the beginnings of large - scale sugar cultivation , the average number of slaves per plantation in 1820 was 69 ...
... plantation econ- omy in the world , the implanting of black and mulatto rule , and , not coinciden- tally , the annihilation of the white population.2 Awareness of the Haitian experience was widely diffused throughout Latin America ...
... plantation zones of the province in 1825 , 1830 , 1831 , and 1832 . Anxiety among São Paulo slave owners further intensified after the Bahia rebel- lion of 1835 and then an 1838 uprising of several hundred plantation slaves in the ...