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What It Means to Be ‘Black in Latin America’
Study Details
- Authors
- Henry Gates, Jr. Louis
- Published
- 07/27/2011
- Citation
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 2011. What it means to be 'Black In Latin America'. NPR, Fresh Air from WHYY (July 27): http://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138601410/what-it-means-to-be-black-in-latin-america&sc=nl&cc=es-20110731
Between 1502 and 1866, 11.2 million Africans disembarked from slave ships in the New World during the Middle Passage. Of those 11.2 million people, only 450,000 came to the United States. The rest of the African slaves who survived the journey were taken to the Caribbean, Latin America and South America.