The Death of Latin-American Slavery

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Frederick P. Bowser
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Slavery

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Robert N. Seidel ◽  
Raymond G. Hebert ◽  
Richard D. Schubart ◽  
H. Roger Grant ◽  
William F. Mugleston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Junior College ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The People

Gerda Lerner. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 509. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $7.95; Caroline Bird. Enterprising Women. New York: Mentor Books, 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95; Anne F. Scott and Andrew M. Scott. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. Pp. xiii, 173. Paper, $3.25. Review by Sally G. Allen of Hampshire College. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Collins. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. 1976. Pp. 309. Paper, $2.50; Robert Douglas Mead, ed. Colonial American Literature: From Wilderness to Independence. New York: Mentor Books. 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95. Review by Robert K. Peters of Texas A&M University. Harry P. Owens, ed. Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Pp. xii, 188. Cloth, $8.50; paper, $3.50. Review by William F. Mugleston of Albany Junior College. Carl N. Degler. The Age of the Economic Revolution, 1876-1900. 2nd edition. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1977. Paper, $4.50; Walter T. K. Nugent. From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876-1917. Indianapolois: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Paper, $3.95. Review by H. Roger Grant of The University of Akron. The Staff, Social Sciences 1, University of Chicago, eds. The People Shall Judge. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1949, 1976. Pp. xiv, 244; vii, 452. Paper, $5.95 per vol. Review by Noel C. Eggleston of Radford College. Kenneth M. Roemer. The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976. $10.00; Paul Kagan. New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Paper, $5.95. Review by Richard D. Schubart of Phillips Exeter Academy. A. J. P. Taylor, Essays in English History. New York: Penguin Books in assocation with Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Pp. 335. Paper, $2.95. Review by Raymond G. Herbert of Thomas More College. Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith, eds. New Approaches to Latin American History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 275. $8.75. Review by Robert N. Seidel of Empire State College, Rochester Center.

Atlantic Continuities in Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Rudolfo Anaya ◽  
Caribbean Writers

This chapter draws from Tomás Rivera’s poetry and Rudolfo Anaya’s short story “The Man Who Could Fly” (2006) to read continuities of an Atlantic world formation within the Southwest. Specifically, this essay compares paradigms of a remembered “Congo” informed by dialectics of empire concerning both Central African exploration—in the case of Rivera—and plantational Latin American and American slavery—in the case of Anaya. While this article argues that in the case of Rivera, Henry Stanley’s exploration haunts the spatialization of Rivera’s poetry, in Anaya, by contrast, Atlantic continuities are chiefly embedded in a transnational comparison with Latin American Caribbean writers such as Gabriel García Márquez and Alejo Carpentier. Applying Caribbean thinker Edouard Glissant’s theorization of “Relation” to these Chicano narratives, this chapter decodes the racial geographies of the Southwest to theorize how landscape and fiction work together to memorialize subaltern Atlantic memory.

Epilogue

Abolitionism ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Richard S. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
The U.S

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, American abolitionists began writing memoirs, histories, and reminiscences of the grand struggle for freedom. Part of a battle over Civil War memory, they sought not only to claim a piece of history but also to combat Lost Cause narratives that already denigrated emancipation. Even though American slavery was history, abolitionist battles continued. The epilogue describes how across the Atlantic world abolitionists realized that their struggle was not over. British abolitionists focused on the perils of illegal slave trading while Iberian and Latin American abolitionists renewed their struggle against bondage itself. In the U.S. South, abolitionists fought against new forms of discrimination that seemed very much like slavery.

Slavery and Race in the Evolution of Latin American Societies: Some Recent Contributions to the Debate

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Magnus Mörner
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Benign Nature ◽  
Blacks And Whites

Why are the patterns of race relations in Latin America and Anglo-America today so different, particularly those between ‘Blacks’ and ‘Whites’? Is the explanation to be found, primarily, in the differences between the previously existing ‘systems of slavery’? Ever since Frank Tannenbaum, in 1947, made his famous statement on the ‘benign’ nature of ‘Latin American slavery’ as opposed to the ‘harsh’ nature of that in North America, these two issues have triggered a most lively debate, largely historical in nature but attracting representatives of other disciplines as well.1

Still Continents (and an Island) with Two Histories?

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Spanish Colonialism ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Historians of Latin American slavery will find de la Fuente's article to be a particularly trenchant and learned essay on familiar historiographic controversies. The archival research awakens anticipation for the author's in-depth study of the earlier period of Cuban slavery, much neglected in favor of the heyday of the sugar complex of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Concentrating on the law and “slaves' claims-making” (341) allows for an important entry into the subject, complementing recent studies of slavery in Spanish America that have focused on how slaves used the institutions of Spanish colonialism to gain freedom or greater autonomy. However, reviving the Tannenbaum thesis, even in the limited form of the law, inspires less enthusiasm. De la Fuente's interpretation of Cuban slavery, through his rereading of Tannenbuam, does not produce misrepresentations in his treatment of historiography or sources; rather, I sense in this work the static conception of New World slavery created by Tannenbaum's dichotomous vision, both among and within particular colonial and national slave societies.

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