Tag: Miriam Gomes

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience International Business Times New York, New York 2013-06-04 Palash Ghosh, Senior Writer, World Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations and farms of the New World. This…