Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000Oxford University Press, 24/06/2004 - 299 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 developed in colonial Latin America and then the varied ways in which slaves responded to those conditions. This chapter then concludes with an examination of that majority of Afro-Latin Americans who by 1800 lived in freedom ...
... slavery developed in colonial Latin America and then the varied ways in which slaves responded to those conditions. This chapter then concludes with an examination of that majority of Afro-Latin Americans who by 1800 lived in freedom ...
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... slaves were not a principal source of labor. In the Caribbean and Central America, however, the discovery of small but significant gold deposits, the shortage of Indian laborers, and the familiarity of many West African slaves with gold ...
... slaves were not a principal source of labor. In the Caribbean and Central America, however, the discovery of small but significant gold deposits, the shortage of Indian laborers, and the familiarity of many West African slaves with gold ...
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... Slaves worked as muleteers in the countryside and as porters and stevedores in the towns and cities, carrying goods and people through the streets, and loading and unloading cargoes from ships in the port. They worked on the water as ...
... Slaves worked as muleteers in the countryside and as porters and stevedores in the towns and cities, carrying goods and people through the streets, and loading and unloading cargoes from ships in the port. They worked on the water as ...
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... slaves, and thus the heartlands of Afro-Latin America. Planters and slave owners imported slaves in such numbers both because of the absence of alternative sources of labor and because of slave populations'consistent inability to ...
... slaves, and thus the heartlands of Afro-Latin America. Planters and slave owners imported slaves in such numbers both because of the absence of alternative sources of labor and because of slave populations'consistent inability to ...
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... slave infants at rates higher.16 Further depressing the slave population's replacement rates was the sexual imbalance among Africans imported into the New World. On average, only about one-third of slaves brought to the Americas were ...
... slave infants at rates higher.16 Further depressing the slave population's replacement rates was the sexual imbalance among Africans imported into the New World. On average, only about one-third of slaves brought to the Americas were ...
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The Wars for Freedom 18101890 | 53 |
The Politics of Freedom 18101890 | 85 |
Whitening 18801930 | 117 |
Chapter 5 Browning and Blackening 19302000 | 153 |
2000 and Beyond | 191 |
Population Counts 18002000 | 203 |
Glossary | 209 |
Notes | 213 |
Selected Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 275 |
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