Black in Latin America

Recently Henry Louis Gates, Jr, A Harvard professor has made a PBS documentary called Black in Latin America. He decided to make this series after learning about how only 450,000 Africans came to America out of the staggering 11 million who were sold during the Slave trade. The vast majority of these slaves were sent down to Latin America and have had an important impact upon the culture of these countries. Brazil alone received 5 million slaves. This incredibly high number allowed slave owners to take even worse care of their slaves than American slave owners since slaves were so easily replaceable in Brazil. Thus far the episodes that have aired have focused on Haiti, The Dominican Republic, and Cuba. One of the upcoming episodes highlights racial tension in Brazil as well.
The already aired episodes can be viewed here http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/ along with educational interviews with Henry Louis Gates, Jr