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Coyolillo. When most people think of Mexico, they don’t imagine people of African descent. But when the Spanish colony in Mexico was first founded, they brought over thousands of slaves from Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and elsewhere. Eventually they rebelled and formed their own communities deep in the mountains of Veracruz.

Today these black Mexicans still have their own community that maintains traditions going back over 500 years, paying homage to people like Yanga who led a revolt against the Spaniards. They’re a distinctive town in the region of Veracruz that has it’s own Carnaval, the Coyolillo Carnaval. They wear cool masks for Carnaval every February.

And they still ride around on donkeys, which I think is awesome.

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  1. @akile2444

    September 7, 2022 at 8:58 am

    Where are the blacks tho 🧐

  2. @THETRAVELGOD410

    September 9, 2022 at 4:11 am

    My DNA results say I have Mexican DNA from a distinct relative. I'm Afro American

  3. @adriannigel8764

    October 5, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    Just wanted to know how you know all this languages.

  4. @carpetcleaningtrainingwith9394

    November 4, 2022 at 2:53 am

    Mexico Hebrew Communities

  5. @carpetcleaningtrainingwith9394

    November 4, 2022 at 2:58 am

    Our God never called us Black people…….really stop and think about that
    Who are the Mexicans in the Bible….? We just didn’t pop up …our Hebrew Mexican brothers have a rich history.

  6. @Link________

    November 4, 2022 at 3:12 am

    your spanish is actually REALLY good you should be a lot more confident when you’re speaking it because I notice you’re a little uncomfortable and unsure if you’re saying things correctly but overall you should speak a lot more confidently because you are really good at spanish compared to many other english speakers. I also recommending learning certain slang words and words that are used in mexico more rather than spain spanish. keep up the good videos

  7. @assassins4

    December 5, 2022 at 3:57 am

    We wuz Mexicans!

  8. @blacksunshine7485

    January 2, 2023 at 4:21 am

    I was looking for Black Sabbath but I got a Black Sabbatical. Not as loud, but equally entertaining

  9. @CeeJ04

    January 13, 2023 at 7:16 am

    I knew it was xalapa from the taxi in the beginning

  10. @hooklinesinker8142

    January 23, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    …they are not African, they are the real natives americans

  11. @kichigan1

    January 30, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    We, Latin Americans must acknowledge our long history of racism against blacks and indigenous communities. In my country, El Salvador, black citizens were expelled out of their own country in the 1930's. More cultures and races, just add more beautiful colors to our lands.

  12. @wheelori814

    February 16, 2023 at 9:34 pm

    I hope you gave Ignacia some money for that breakfast….

  13. @marcellawildman641

    March 3, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    It's a beautiful place. God bless my Mexicanos!!!

  14. @bammthesuperpredator2622

    March 7, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    ¿Dónde están las llamadas personas "negras"? Where are the so-called "black" people? Where are these alleged "Africans"? Exactly, most of them don't exist. They're indigenous.

  15. @carlosmorenobeltran5813

    March 28, 2023 at 12:26 am

    I invite you to the BEST Carnaval in the Huasteca. The Huasteca region is about 4 hrs north of Mexico City, come to Carnaval Calnali 2024.

  16. @jacktack77

    March 29, 2023 at 9:56 pm

    DON'T YOU JUST SAY YOU ARE SEEKING OUT THE HEBREWS??? 🤷🏿‍♂️ YOU HAVE BEEN GOING AROUND THE WORLD GOING INTO HEBREW (NEGROES) GHETTOS BUT WHY??

  17. @angelsoto1475

    April 24, 2023 at 12:39 am

    Mexico lost Texas for defending the rights of the blacks. Gaspar Yanga often simply Yanga or Nyanga (May 14, 1545 – 1618) was an African who led a maroon colony of enslaved Africans in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico (then New Spain) during the early period of Spanish colonial rule. He successfully resisted a Spanish attack on the colony in 1609. The maroons continued their raids on Spanish settlements. Finally in 1618, Yanga achieved an agreement with the colonial government for self-rule of the maroon settlement. It was later called San Lorenzo de los Negros, and also San Lorenzo de Cerralvo. In the late 19th century, Yanga was named as a "national hero of Mexico" and "The first liberator of America" ("El Primer Libertador de América"). In 1932 the settlement he formed, located in today's state of Veracruz, was renamed as Yanga in his honor. The city of YANGA Veracruz Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  18. @MasoudseifRamadhan-hd8zx

    July 4, 2023 at 1:38 pm

    Uko sawa Kaka mpaka kispanyola unagonga

  19. @cristianmendez7102

    July 29, 2023 at 3:30 am

    Nice video bro 👍

    New subscriber

  20. @juspeel

    August 7, 2023 at 4:41 am

    Interesting! I’m really into the Afro Mexican history being Mexican myself…🇲🇽💪🏽💯

  21. @teresaguerrrasalazar4964

    September 15, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    The afro descendants in Veracruz came when Mexico abolished slavery inTexas in1839 when all of the Southwest was mexican territory, the US colonists kept invading Texas bringing slaves and subleasing mexican land to other Europeans. In an effort to halt the invasion of US colonists because they were already threatening to walk away with Texas, Mexico abolished Slavery, the Anglos not wanting to give up their slaves fought with Mexico to keep Texas, and that is how mexico lost all of the southwest to the US, Mexico added a clause in the Mexican institution prohibiting slavery and anyone who was enslaved would be free upon stepping on Mexican soil. From 1887 to 1911 a mexican preside, Porfirio Diaz, wanted to"modernize Mexico and open the country to foreign investment, England invested in the oil industry in the port of Veracruz and brought their own Black citizens from their nearby colonies of the Bahamas and Jamaica, and also invested in sugar cane fields those afros from the Caribbean brought to Veracruz in Mexico still have their English surnames, ad their English-Blak admixture phenotype is apparent like blue eyes and fair skin tones their black workers were used as foreman to forced the indians to work from sunset to sundown the abused of enslavement of the Indians on their own stolen land by England was horrific, In the State of Hidalgo the English brought heavy machinery ships to be installed in the mexican mines of silver they had invested, the local cemetery has headstones with English names again they used labor from the Mexican peasants using their Afro people as foreman to subdue the Indians. In oaxaca also the English invested in the most fertile land of oaxaca enslaving the indians and their Caribbean Afros used as foremen to abuse the indians they were the European men of trust threatening the indians with firearms, the indians feared them and today those Afros who came from the Caribbean brag in cameras of owning the most fertile land of the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero while the Indian has been relegated to dry isolated remote land where if it does not rain he starves, there are many Indigenous people with blindness and many children are born with birth defects due to malnutrition and famine. We the people of mexico are the victims of the Europeans and Afros. there was a black man who came to mexico with Hernan Cortez who brought chicken pox to the Indigenous population the word genocide in the history of mankind is worse than the Holocaust and the suffering of the Indians is 10 times worse than the transatlantic slave trade. Africa enriched themselves by commercializing their own people. We the indigenous people did not invite foreigners to our land. October 12, 1492, the date in history that changed the life of the Amerindian as he knew it forever When foreigners from other continents benefitted from our land, except the Amerindians we were dispossessed and deprived of our land and its natural resources for our survival. Thou shall not evict the people from their land it is a sin. Nexico as well as all the Spanish-speaking countries do not include the race of a person in official documents like the US does, people live in harmony while respecting each other as per human values rule society. If people keep digging to separate people in Mexico there is going to be another Mexican Revolution.

  22. @chrisr6142

    October 17, 2023 at 5:05 am

    Black huh. Crazy what passes as black when you need it to.

  23. @Stigz34

    December 9, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    Idk why I got this as a notification like it was a new upload..

  24. @smk4428

    February 3, 2024 at 5:25 pm

    This guy was asking good questions.

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