George Reid Andrews: 3 books
Blackness in the White Nation
A History of Afro-Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay's national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America,...
by George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
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.
by Seymour Drescher, Hebe Maria Mattos de Castro, George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In May 1888 the Brazilian parliament passed, and Princess Isabel (acting for her father, Emperor Pedro II) signed, the lei aurea, or Golden Law, providing for the total abolition of slavery. Brazil thereby became the last “civilized nation” to part with slavery as a legal institution. The freeing...