Buried Africans Of México, The
Nwelue, Onyeka
The year, 1519, is epochal. It was the year before the death of Montezuma II, the last monarch of the Aztec empire. The Aztec Empire held sway over the valley of Mexico. Its capital was situated in what today is Mexico city. It was in that year, 1519, that the Spanish first shipped Africans from the African continent to Mexico, to work in the agricultural and mining spheres.Nin...
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The year, 1519, is epochal. It was the year before the death of Montezuma II, the last monarch of the Aztec empire. The Aztec Empire held sway over the valley of Mexico. Its capital was situated in what today is Mexico city. It was in that year, 1519, that the Spanish first shipped Africans from the African continent to Mexico, to work in the agricultural and mining spheres.
Ninety years after Africans were first shipped to Mexico as slaves, a monumental milestone occurred in the African odyssey in Mexico. Yanga, a heroic Afro-Mexican, repulsed a Spanish attack on the colony he led. Yanga, also known as Nyanga, was said to have been an indigene of the territory that is now Guinea Bissau in West Africa, kidnapped and sold as a slave in Mexico. Yanga was the leader of a famous rebellion, a colony of slaves in a mountainous territory of Mexico.
The Siddis, descendants of Africans brought to India over 600 years ago, have lived on the subcontinent for centuries. They have fought in armies, ruled in parts of Gujarat, and blended into the cultural fabric of the country. However, they have, like Afro-Mexicans, been marginalized, their presence acknowledged only when convenient, their history either ignored or rewritten.
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