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South America's Black People |
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In South America, countries like Argentina, Paraguay, Boliva and Chile do not
have a history of native black people who are still surviving in that
part of the American continent. On the other hand, countries like
Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia, are very buoyant in African
history. In Chile and Argentina, they claim that the very cold climate there, was not favorable to the black people who were taken there as slaves. But that is a very poor excuse because the harshest of cold weather in North America, permitted for African slaves to survive there, later to be freed, to make impact in North America up to date. So what is the real truth behind the absence of surviving black natives in countries like Argentina and Chile? The answer obviously lies somewhere in the choice of these countries to |
embark on developmental projects that required less manual
slave labor. On the other hand, as our research goes further, we learn that an apparent lack of interest towards black people, also, mostly led to the elimination of a few black slaves who tried to settle in those countries as escapees from the plantation fields. The very few who took roots had their black blood lines easily mixed out into blood lines of the Indians and that of the slave masters. But black people survived slavery and still flourish in other South American countries like Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, albeit under unequal circumstances. There are many different ways the old slaves had to adapt in order to be accepted in their alien new lands. In South America, one of those ways was to form alliances and bonds with the first natives, the so called "Indians", who knew the land well, |
but were not as
exploitative as the slave masters.
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