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Although little is known about Afro-descendants of El Salvador (and Guatemala) working in the agricultural sector, several sources in the last third of the sixteenth century identified Afro-Salvadoran farming communities in the area surrounding the city of Sonsonate.
Afro-Salvadorans, called Pardo and sometimes Afro-Mestizos in the colonial period, are the descendants of the African population that were enslaved and shipped to El Salvador to work in mines in specific regions of El Salvador. They have mixed into and were naturally bred out by the general Mestizo population, which is a combination of a ...
Salvadoran children from Metapán Painting of the First Independence Movement celebration in San Salvador, El Salvador Salvadorans celebrating independence day parade. As is the case elsewhere in Latin America , there is no clear distinction between White and Mestizo Salvadorans, the large majority of the population have varying proportions of ...
Zambo (Spanish: or) or Sambu is a racial term historically used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Amerindian and African ancestry. Occasionally in the 21st century, the term is used in the Americas to refer to persons who are of mixed African and Native American ancestry.
Arturo Schomburg, a foundational figure in the preservation of Black history, left a blueprint as an Afro Latino scholar on how to question traditional history.
El Salvador is the only country in Central America that does not have a significant African population due to many factors including El Salvador not having a Caribbean coast, and because of president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, who passed racial laws to keep people of African descent and others out of El Salvador, though Salvadorans with ...
Sambo came into the English language from zambo, the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of South American negro, mixed European, and native descent. [3] This in turn may have come from one of three African language sources.
The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.