Black in Latin America

by Henry Louis Gates

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Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge-or deny-their African past
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 changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These...

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  • ISBN10 0814732992
  • ISBN13 9780814732991
  • Publish Date 30 July 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New York University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 270
  • Language English