Latin America in the Antebellum Black Press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3615044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yesenia Barragan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-391 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/726860 |
| OpenAlex | W4402768974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article reveals how Latin America figured prominently in the antebellum African American press. Through an exploration of twenty-four antebellum Black newspapers, this article focuses on three core themes circulating within these papers: the slave trade, abolition and emancipation, and racial equality across Latin America. Divided into three thematic sections, this article shows how African American newspapers were deeply concerned with the expansion of slavery in the region; how they followed the war against slavery, from the adoption of gradual abolition laws in Chile to the final abolition of slavery in Venezuela, underway throughout Latin America; and spread ideas of the achievement of racial equality and harmony in Latin America in places as disparate as Mexico and the Dominican Republic. It argues that while the historical conditions faced by African Americans shifted on the ground throughout the antebellum era, their vision of Latin America as a (largely) politically hopeful space did not
Economic history · Latin Americans · Political science · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Beacons of Liberty
The Black Newspaper And The Chosen Nation
Birthright Citizens
Under the Flags of Freedom
This Vast Southern Empire
Freedom's Captives
Building an Antislavery Wall
La esclavitud, la abolición y los afrodescendientes
The Mixed Commissions for the Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Latin America and the Radicalization of U.S. Abolition
Frontiers of Citizenship
The Invention of Latin America
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable
The Dead March
Slaves and the Creation of Legal Rights in Cuba
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |