Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Africans in Hispanic America by Jay Kinsbruner (Editor)Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780684312705
Publication Date: 2008-05-09
People of African descent live in all of the former Spanish colonies in the Americas. With few exceptions, they are the descendants of African slaves who were first brought to the Americas in 1502. African slavery finally ended in Spanish America in 1886, when Cuba became the last society to abolish it. A century later, the legacy of slavery remains apparent in all of the former slave-holding societies. Individuals who claim African ancestry are struggling everywhere for self-definition and a secure place in the lands of their birth.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: Mortality and Morbidity in Latin America and the Caribbean by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780028658162Publication Date: 2005-12-16Over the past five centuries, mortality and morbidity changes among the people of Afro-Latin America have been closely related to living conditions during the enslavement of Afro-Latin populations, and to their evolving socioeconomic situations after emancipation.
