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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... uprising in 1530 and then attacked again in 1550 ; Havana was sacked and pillaged by slaves in 1538 following an attack on the city by French corsairs . An uprising of slaves in Mexico City was only narrowly averted in 1537 , and ...
... uprising or — as in Spanish America 20 years earlier - fighting their own " independent wars . ” And in each of the rebellions , they proved to be the most committed and longest - enduring element of the rebel forces . In Maranhão by ...
... uprising was a racially motivated " black " rebel- lion or the product of a broader liberal coalition . Given the anxieties and insecu- rities of the day , such a distinction was fundamentally important to white elites . Rebellions or ...