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12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest-over ten and a half million-were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Black people > Latin America > History.
Black people > Race identity > Latin America.
Slavery > Latin America > History.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Amérique latine.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Black people
Black people > Race identity
Civilization > African influences
Race relations
Slavery
Latin America > Civilization > African influences.
Latin America > Race relations.
Amérique latine > Relations raciales.
Latin America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Brazil : "May Exú give me the power of speech"
  • Mexico : "The black grandma in the closet"
  • Peru : the black soul of Peru
  • The Dominican Republic : "Black behind the ears"
  • Haiti : "From my ashes I rise; God is my cause and my sword" (motto on King Henri Christophe's Haitian flag, 1811-1820)
  • Cuba : the next Cuban revolution.

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