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Slavery and Abolition in early Republican Peru; Browser, Frederick P. The African Slave in Colonial Peru; Jouve Martn, Jos Ramn. The Black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early republican Peru. Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] Lockhart, James. Spanish Peru: A Colonial Society ...
The first black inhabitants were brought to Peru with the establishment of the Spanish Empire in the current Peruvian territories, who took them as slaves to work productive activities where a strong workforce was required, in the case of men, such as mining and agriculture, and women to work in the domestic service of the most affluent classes ...
Alonso de Sandoval, SJ (7 December 1576 - 25 December 1652) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary in Colombia.He devoted most of his life to the evangelization of Black slaves arriving in the Colombian port city of Cartagena, and was the mentor of Saint Peter Claver.
Black in Latin America is a documentary television series that aired on PBS on April 19, 2011, in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series is based on the 2011 book Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. , who produced the four-episode series.
After the gradual emancipation of most black slaves, slavery continued along the Pacific coast of South America throughout the 19th century. Peruvian slave traders kidnapped Polynesians, primarily from the Marquesas Islands and Easter Island, and forced them to perform physical labour in mines and the guano industry of Peru and Chile. [6]
According to Linda Newson of King's College London, Perez became "one of the most prominent slave traders in Lima, Peru, in the 1620s and 1630s, when he was responsible for the importation of about 300 to 400 African slaves a year". [4] Here he established himself as the richest man in Peru of the day.
Armando Normand was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in around 1880. [18] It is believed he spent the first twenty years of his life in and around Cochabamba. [2] The little information about Normand's early life comes from an interview conducted by Peter MacQueen in 1913, during which Normand said: [18] [2]
The National Afro-Peruvian Museum is a museum dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and exhibition of objects related to the history of African descendants in Peru. Its headquarters is located in the House of the Thirteen Coins located on Ancash Street in the historic centre of Lima . [ 1 ]