Veracruz,Mexico: The African Root July 2010 (Edit-Repost July 2012) from yanga Watch Video
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Description: Veracruz is the port city on Mexico's Caribbean coast, where beginning in the early 1500's, 10's of 1,000's of Africans along with their culture were brought into the country. nOne of those early arriving Africans was Gaspar Yanga who led a successful slave revolt against the Spanish and established free territory known... as San Lorenzo de los Negro, Now renamed in the name of it's legendary founder, El Yanga.nThis photograph of a woman soldier in Emilio Zapata's Revolutionary Army of the South