In Latin America You Could Be Free: An African American History

A hemispheric history of how free and fugitive antebellum African Americans sought freedom in Latin America

"A groundbreaking account of African American freedom struggles." —Alice Baumgartner, author of South to Freedom

Fifty years before the United States went to war over the issue, Chile abolished slavery. Colombia followed in 1821, and Mexico soon after. Black Americans took note. As plantation slavery terrorized their communities, Latin America emerged as the place they could be free....