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A Love Letter to My Trini-Vene Tribe… #BlackHistoryIsGlobal
Today’s La Vida En Black History Month moment comes in the form of a love letter. A love letter written through history, by our ancestors, by our Great Grandmothers and Great Grandfathers…today’s Post is dedicated to mi famila. Born in the “in between” time my Mummy, Josefa Machado was a bright daughter in the Luces family. …
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La Vida En Black; El Negro Primero #BlackHistoryIsGlobal
Afro-Venezuelans were a vital part of the struggle for independence. One of Simon Bolívar’s most famous lieutenants, Pedro Camejo, is legendary in Venezuela’s history as “El Negro Primero,” who was always the first to ride into battle. In the final battle of Carabobo, Camejo was mortally wounded but survived long enough to utter one infamous phrase: “General, vengo decirle,…
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El Maestro Rafael Cordero, La Vida En Black History Month #BlackHistoryIsGlobal
Todays La Vida En Black History Month Message comes from Borinken… or the Beautiful island of Puerto Rico… One of the most renowned Puerto Ricans of African ancestry was Rafael Cordero (1790 – 1868), a freeman born in San Juan into a poor family, his father Lucas Cordero worked in the tobacco fields and his mother…
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Chilean Encomiendas, like 40 Acres and a Mule…
#BlackHistoryIsGlobal Todays La Vida En Black History Month Message comes from deep in South America. Chile’s first Afro-descendants were brought as slaves and soldiers in 1536, with the explorer Diego de Almagro. The African Slaves worked in farming and agriculture, mined gold and worked on construction projects. The quality of the slaves’ lives was so…
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One step from the Danza… Miguel Faílde #BlackHistoryIsGlobal
La Vida En Black History Month Cuban composer and creator of the danzon; Miguel Faílde Pérez was born in Guacamaro, Matanzas, on 23 December 1852 – and died on the 26th of December 1921. The founder of the Orquesta Faílde was born into a musical family, where Faílde’s father was a Galician immigrant, and his…
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Yanga’s Successful Mexican Revolt… La Vida En Black History Month
La Vida En Black History Month… #BlackHistoryIsGlobal During the Spanish colonial period in Mexico the indigenous people enslaved by the Colonists were practically annihilated by disease. In order to replace their free labor, the Spanish brought enslaved African to Mexico to toil the sugar fields and work the underground mines. Enslaved Africans were highly sought after because they…
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