There are almost 2.4 million Afro Mexicans in total, representing 1.2% of the national population. Most live in Veracruz, Guerrero, and Oaxaca.
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“The so-called Mascogos, a bi-national migrant people, also known as Black Seminoles, are a mixture of Florida’s Muscogee or Creek Indians and African Maroons who fled from slavery in the United States,” he said. “They wereto a region that became Texas and then had to flee that area as well. They arrived in Mexico in the 19th century when Benito Juarez was president. They live in a community called El Nacimiento, near Múzquiz, Coahuila, in the north of the Mexican republic.
Mestizaje took place not only between Spaniards and Indians, Serna noted: It also included the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., of the Black Africans who were forcibly brought to work as slaves in the mines, on the sugar cane plantations, in domestic service and in so many other fundamental activities for the development of New Spain’s colonial economy.
“‘Indianization of the African and Africanization of the Indian,’ a theoretical proposal of Dr. Luz Maria Martinez Montiel, reveals a historical-cultural phenomenon that she has called ‘Afroindianity.’ Afro-descendants and Indigenous people share spaces in our America and during colonial times, the Indigenous and Africans or Afro-descendants were in the majority, living alongside the Spaniards.
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