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 , " gradually removing restrictions on trade between colonial ports and the metropolis . In 1789 Spain took the even more radical step of removing all restrictions on the slave trade to its colonies and instituting gen- uine free ...
... trading networks further inland . In the Congo and Angola , 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 ...
... trade and slavery were legally abolished . Dates in parentheses indicate actual ending of the slave trade , if later than legal abolition . Spain signed treaties with Great Britain in 1817 ( effective 1820 ) and 1835 to abolish the slave ...