Russell Lohse: 2 books
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
Between Race and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities...
Africans into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in...