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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... rebellion constituted yet an- other form of slave resistance and response . Though slave uprisings occurred throughout the colonial period , they tended to cluster at the beginning of that pe- riod ( when European control over these new ...
... rebellion.48 Nor , given Oriente's recent history , was it entirely surprising that the govern- ment resorted to such savage repression to put down the rebellion . From the run- away communities of the early 1800s through the three ...
... Rebellion , 42 . 66. Harding , Refuge in Thunder , 68–103 ; Butler , Freedoms Given , 191–99 . 67. Karasch , Slave Life , 262 ; see 261–87 . This was the case in Cuba as well , where Esteban Montejo recalled how " people used to run ...