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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... urban occupations , ranging from the most un- skilled and degraded to the most highly skilled . " They were prominent in any enterprise requiring large groups of laborers gathered in one place , such as con- struction and manufacturing ...
... urban areas than in the countryside . Urban slaves had greater access both to information about their legal rights and to the officials responsible for enforcing those rights . Also , most urban slave owners were individuals of modest ...
... urban slum communities grew as well . Their overcrowding and crude sanitary conditions contributed to high urban death rates , crime , and occasional outbreaks of epidemic disease that threatened all city dwellers . And throughout Afro ...