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Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Harpercollins Beyond the Masks also offersThis volume examines the political, cultural, and social role of the population with African background in the shaping of national identity in various Latin American countries. Slavery survived well into the nineteenth century in countries such as Brazil and Cuba; first its existence and then the dismantling of the institution strongly affected the definition of citizenship in the emerging nation states. However, not all blacks were slaves, and a