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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... trade routes stretched 300 to 400 miles into the interior of the continent , a journey of several months . In West Africa sources of supply remained closer to the coast ; even here , however , slave traders pushed further north in ...
George Reid Andrews. TABLE 2.1 . Abolition of the African slave trade and of slavery , 1810–1888 Slavery Country Slave trade Free Womb law Final abolition Dominican Republic 1822 1822 Chile 1811 1811 1823 Central America 1824 1824 ...
... slave liberation . The first step in that process was the ending of the African slave trade to Brazil in 1850.89 The elimination of the slave trade set off a chain of consequences . With no new Africans entering the country , the slave ...