Did you know there are Black-Mexicans? 🇲🇽

When people think about Mexico, Black-Mexicans are not often the first thing that comes to mind, given the fact that they made up one million and some change of the Mexican’s population. Black-Mexicans has been oppressed by their very own government and has been frequently disregarded for ages. However, their cultural and historical presence in Mexico cannot be scorned. This article will talk about the incredible account of Black-Mexicans.

History of Black-Mexicans:

Contrary to what many people recognize, Mexico was a slave trading post in the early16th century and was made out of a populace of around 200,000 predominantly West African slaves (Akans, Wollofs, ect) that outnumbered the Spanish colonialists for decades and was for some time the greatest in the Americas. Black West African slaves were typically used by the Spanish to serve as supervisors, superintending the congenital groups, and many of the slave population, mostly African males, actually went on to couple indigenous women.

Therefore, this resulted in mixed-race children. Afro-Mexicans were all but forgotten about for ages, as their bloodlines joined with other indigenous populations and mestizo peoples of Mexico. This abrasion from Mexican account was reinforced in the post-Mexican Revolution when Spanish and indigenous bloodlines, rather than African…