The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil; more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires; this work explores central issues; including the transatlantic slave trade; labor; Afro-Latin American cultures; racial identities in colonial slave societies; and the spread of antislavery ideas and social movements. A study of Latin America; this work; with its Atlantic-world framework; will also appeal to students of slavery and abolition in other Atlantic empires and nation-states in the early modern and modern eras.
#594585 in Books University of Missouri 1999-11-25Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.20 x 6.13l; 1.43 #File Name: 0826212654424 pages
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy barbara ann day4 star.0 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy Anthony e MiddletonUsed for Blacjk History Month display11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. An important observational collection of Black experience.By Midwest Book ReviewBitter Fruit surveys the experiences of Afro-American women in World War II; contrasting sharply with the largely white surveys of women of the times. Photos; essays; fiction and poetry by and about black women's roles provide quite a different image of experiences; and offers works from some eighty writers on the topic. An important observational collection about black experiences during the war.
