| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
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| Contents |
Angolans in Amatitlán : sugar, African migrants, and gente ladina in colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken -- Cacao and slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650/1750 / Russell Lohse -- Race and place in colonial Mosquitia, 1600/1787 / Karl H. Offen -- Slavery and social differentiation: slave wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez -- Becoming free, becoming Ladino : slave emancipation and mestizaje in colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk -- "The cruel whip": race and place in nineteenth-century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe -- What difference did color make? blacks in the "white towns" of western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson -- Race and the space of citizenship : the Mosquito Coast and the place of blackness and indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Eventually alien : the multigenerational saga of British West Indians in Central America, 1870/1940 / Lara Putnam -- White zones : American enclave communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle -- The slow ascent of the marginalized : Afro-descendants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando |
| Summary |
Scholars, apart from Central Americans, have largely ignored the history of Africans in Central America; this collection recuperates the ignored and forgotten history of blacks in the region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Black people -- Central America -- History
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Slavery -- Central America -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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Black people
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Race relations
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Slavery
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Afro-Américain (peuple) -- Amérique centrale -- 17e s. -- 20e s. -- congrès.
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| SUBJECT |
Central America -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
Central America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gudmundson, Lowell.
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Wolfe, Justin, 1968-
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| ISBN |
0822393131 |
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9780822393139 |
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128306569X |
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9781283065696 |
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9786613065698 |
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6613065692 |
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