AFRO LATIN AMERICA from Alla

NEW ~ Catalogue of primary source documents on nineteenth-century slavery in Brazil, housed at the Biblioteca Nacional. 244pp. Illustrations. Center section with beautifully reproduced images, including photographs. Chronology. Bibliography. Sewn binding, quality paper, plastic coated heavy cover. New book, with light shelf wear to cover. Em portugues / Portuguese. Hard to find in the U.S. In stock. Usually ships in… Read more about this item

Classic text on comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas by Frank Tannenbaum, with an Introduction by Franklin W. Knight. First published in 1947. 128pp. Index. No markings, interior pages fine. Slight wear to cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Fifteen interdisciplinary essay about African-Americans / Afroamericanos / negros and Indigenous Americans and Mexicans by a group of international scholars arranged in five thematic sections: Cultura Politica, Derechos Civiles, Educacion Publica, Temas de Salud, & Estudios Sobre Mujeres. 349pp. Charts. Bibliography. Edition of only 500 / 500 ejemplares. En espanol. Light shelf wear - shop inventory. In stock.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Edicao atualizada e ampliada. Colaboracao de Sergio Fausto. Updated and expanded edition. Didatica, 1. 680pp. Map. Illustrations, some color. Bibliography. Index. The history of Brazil by the accomplished historian Boris Fausto. Em portugues / Portuguese. Light shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ A collection of nineteen history essays by international academics on slavery and women of African descent in Brazil before and after abolition. Primarily eighteenth and nineteenth century. Em portugues / Portuguese. 319pp. Charts. Illustrations. Bibliographies. Light shelf wear; bend in top corner of front cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Estudio del Reformismo Borbonica en los tres Codigos Negros que tuvo la America espanola (1768, 1769, y 1784), la Instruccion de 1789, y los Reglamentos de esclavos para Puerto Rico y Cuba de 1826 y 1842. Coleccion Memoria de los Pueblos. Coleccion Africania. Es espanol / Spanish. 328pp. Charts. Transcribed documents. Light shelf wear; Alla stamp on front… Read more about this item

Essays on slavery in colonial Brazil by Stuart B. Schwartz considering topics such as labor, family, and the maroon community Palmares. 174pp. Bibliographies. Index. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Elizabeth Kiddy (Ph.D. Latin American Studies) studies the Afro-Brazilian communities that formed within colonial religious brotherhoods in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and endured among modern descendants in Belo Horizonte. 287pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. In English. Light shelf wear. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Historian Robert Slenes' important study that demonstrates the endurance of Central African traditions of family formation among the enslaved in nineteenth-century Southeast Brazil. 302pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. 2nd corrected edition. Em portugues / Portuguese. In stock. New copy. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Important ethno-historical study based on archival research that documents Indigenous and African mixed communities within the eighteenth-century slave-holding society of northwest coastal Colombia by Anthropologist Erik Werner Cantor. 202pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. En espanol / Spanish. New copy, light shelf wear to cover. Siglo del Hombre Editores and Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia stickers and Alla stamp… Read more about this item

NEW ~ The Jesuit political, theological, and juridical role in the formation of colonial Brazil as a society based on the enslavement of Indigenous and African peoples. Traducao Antonio de Padua Danesi. 616pp. Bibliography. Index. Em portugues / Portuguese. Quality paper and heavy paper cover with folded flaps. Brand new book. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ 1 DVD-ROM com documentario: O areal, Direcao Sebastian Sepulveda. Historical and Interdisciplinary study focusing on the Amazon of the imagination--both early modern and contemporary--relying primarily on travel descriptions and expeditionary reports. By Chilean Ana Pizarro. 271pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Em portugues / Portuguese. Includes a DVD-ROM with a documentary film (in Portuguese with English and Spanish subtitles) by Sebastian… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Attractive hardcover edition of these 23 short stories by Antonio Galvez Ronceros (Chincha, Peru, 1932) centering on the lives of Black rural workers of coastal Peru, will illustrations by the author. 131pp. Illustrated. En espanol / Spanish. Brand new copy. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Blacks in the formation of Peruvian popular music in a small 119pp. booklet with accompanying CD by Susana Baca, all in a folding artesanal burlap cover. Published for the 1492-1992 Quinto Centenario. Released by the Biblioteca Nacional, Lima, Peru. In original sealed plastic and stamped by the Biblioteca, number 162. En espanol / Spanish. Rare! In stock. Second photograph shows… Read more about this item

NEW ~ First published in 1883, Joaquim Nabuco's (1849-1910) treatise against slavery stands as a classic in Brazilian political thought. This fifth edition published in the original Portuguese by Editora Vozes includes an informative introduction that places the document in historical context--a key publication in the struggle that finally outlawed slavery in 1888 in Brazil. Introducao de Marco Aurelio Nogueira.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ A brief social history of Carnaval de Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil, from Afro roots during the colonial period to the final quarter of the twentieth century, based on primary (especially period newspapers) and secondary sources. By Ananias Martins, cover title: Carnaval de Sao Luis : diversidade e tradicao. Em portuguese / Portuguese 140pp. Illustrations. Notes and bibliography. Very… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Esclavitud en Cuba basada en anuncios de compra y venta con importante data sobre etnia, genro, oficio, etc. Slavery in Cuba from 1790-abolition in 1886 based primarily on an analysis of purchase and sales ads published in Cuban newspapers, which are published in the appendix. Anexo: "Relacion de anuncios de venta de esclavos publicada en Diarios de La… Read more about this item

History of resistance and rebellion by enslaved Africans in Brazil with chapters on rebellions and quilombos (maroons) in various regions (many corresponding to modern Brazilian states) by Jose Alipio Goulart. Colecao Temas Brasileiros 13. 294pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Transcribed documents. Em portugues / Portuguese. Purchased used in Brasil. Cover worn, discolored especially edges & spine. Erasure on front end paper. Interior… Read more about this item

Classic study of the resistance of enslaved Africans in Brazil--their quilombos (maroons), uprisings and insurrections, and guerrilla warfare, primarily during the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. 268pp. Includes bibliography and a section of transcribed documents. Colecao Temas Brasileiros 11. Em portugues / Portuguese. A used copy purchased in Brazil. Cover is worn, spine wrinkled with small tear at lower front corner. Erasure on… Read more about this item

NEW ~ A collection of thirteen chapters in Spanish about issues related to sustainable development in Amazonia, including ancient agriculture, Afro descendants, extraction, Rondonia colonies, fishing, agroforestry, ethnobotany, and more. 201pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Slight wear to cover. In stock. Usually ships in three days.