Along the highlands and coastal shores of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, reside a nation of people unknown or forgotten. Many are the descendants of the enslaved Africans transported to this rich tropical land more than 500 hundred years ago. Today they are identified as Afro-Mexican and Afro-Mestizo. Within their communities they are simply Mexicans. The first African slave brought to Mexico is said to be one Juan Cortés, a slave who accompanied the conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1519. The Indians, spellbound by his dark skin, for they had never seen an African before, took him for a god!
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