The African Experience in Spanish America

The African Experience in Spanish America

Editorial Reviews
Times Literary Supplement
"A masterly survey-vigorous in its views, rigorous in its scholarship. . . a classic"

Book Description
This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of the Western hemisphere. Rout engagingly presents the broad historical contours of the African experience in Spanish America, from enslavement, resistance, and rebellion to the crucial participation of Afro-Latin Americans in the wars of independence, and a region-by-region account of their varied treatment in the newly-founded republics from the nineteenth century to the modern era. republics from the nineteenth century to the modern era.

The African Experience in Spanish America,Leslie B., Jr. Rout,Markus Wiener Publishers,155876321X,Blacks,History,History - General History,History: World,Latin America,Latin America - South America,Slavery,Africa,American history,History of specific racial & ethnic groups

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