Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000While 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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Along with the silver mines of Mexico and Peru , sugar plantations were the first truly industrial sites in Latin ... plantations were smaller , but even here the average number of slaves per plantation was 50 , with some employing up ...
ica : a tropical plantation colony ruled by an absolutist Bourbon monarchy , based on African slavery , and governed by caste laws modeled in large part on those of Latin America . And of the three revolutions , its outcomes were by far ...
71 Just as worrisome , in light of recent events in Haiti , were the slave rebellions that plagued the plantation zones . ... pro- ducing coordinated uprisings on multiple plantations in Havana , Matanzas , and other provinces .
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معاينة المستخدمين - Fledgist - LibraryThingA brief, but thorough history of the African presence in Latin America from the beginning of the era of independence to the end of the twentieth century. This is a work of great importance that fills a huge gap in the literature on Latin America. قراءة التقييم بأكمله