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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... slaves early on , and the formal freedom ( and land ) eventually granted to them by the Crown , were hardly typical of Latin American slavery . But in achieving those extraordinary outcomes , the cobreros acted in much the same way as ...
George Reid Andrews. did urban slavery , where most owners held slaves in much smaller numbers . In Venezuela at the end of the colonial period , marriage rates among rural slaves were twice as high as among urban slaves , were ...
... slaves to escape servitude , to redefine working conditions on the plantations , or even to make war on their ... slaves of Vera- cruz province on the Caribbean coast , one of the few regions in Mexico where slaves formed a significant ...