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Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000
George Reid Andrews
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Hardback. Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBAH; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Africans and their descendants-both free and enslaved-participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries' colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were conspicuously excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's history. George Reid Andrews seeks to redress this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in their New World home. He reconstructs this heritage from the paper trail of slavery and freedom, the testimonies of ... Read more
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Africans and their descendants-both free and enslaved-participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries' colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were conspicuously excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's history. George Reid Andrews seeks to redress this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in their New World home. He reconstructs this heritage from the paper trail of slavery and freedom, the testimonies of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674737594
SKU
V9780674737594
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About George Reid Andrews
George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000
Beautifully written by an eminent scholar, Afro-Latin America provides readers with new approaches to understanding the African diaspora in the Americas. George Reid Andrews masterfully shows that there is no area of the hemisphere that has not been touched by people of African descent.
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