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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... slavery . But unlike the rest of Latin America , peace and po- litical stability continued in Brazil , greatly reducing opportunities for slaves to further undermine the institution by fleeing to join rebel armies or guerrilla bands ...
... slavery had ended . Visiting Peru in 1880 , Frenchman Charles Wiener found Afro - Peruvians still tormented by " that evil memory , that nightmare , of slavery , slavery that has not existed for a quarter of a century , but the memory ...
... slavery was submitted to the Spanish Cortes in 1811. It was rejected , and there was apparently no further ... Slavery and Abolition , 95–125 . Slaves also took over abandoned haciendas in Cartagena . Bell Lemus , Carta- gena de Indias ...