Africans in the Americas by Michael L. Conniff

1976) and has published a number of books on modern Latin American history, most recently A History of Modern Latin America (with Lawrence Clayton) and Populism in Latin America. Conniff earned degrees at UC-Berkeley and Stanford (Ph.D. A very useful text.' The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, 633-65 (1995) Michael L. 'On the whole Africans in the Americas accomplishes its purpose well, there is a great deal of fascinating information here. Finally, the book concludes with chapters on modern race and economic relations in the Americas and a chapter on the continuing ties between African Americans and Africa.

Other topics include the role of free blacks throughout the Americas, women and gender relations, and African-American relations with Europeans and Native American populations. It continues with a comparative history of the slave trade and emancipation. The book begins with a chapter on African antiquity and early contacts with Europe. Others deal with specific territories such as the United States, Venezuela, Cuba or Brazil. Several chapters provide sweeping surveys of broad regions such as British North America, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, the Andean countries and Latin America. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa and Europe prior to 1500, the work covers chronologically the transatlantic slave trade, domestic slave trading, slave systems, the abolition movements, and the aftermath of emancipation throughout the Americas. This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century.

Africans in the Americas by Michael L. Conniff