{"id":57256,"date":"2019-01-07T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57256"},"modified":"2019-01-07T02:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:13:06","slug":"reconstructing-latin-americas-african-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57256","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing Latin America\u2019s African past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reconstructing Latin America\u2019s African past<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

UCI News<\/a>
\nIrvine, California
\n2019-01-02<\/p>\n

Lilibeth Garcia<\/strong><\/a>, Social Media Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Reconstructing<\/a>
\n\u201cThis has become a collaboration on a worldwide level that now involves anthropologists, linguists, geneticists and musicologists,\u201d says Armin Schwegler<\/a>, UCI professor of Spanish & Portuguese, of the Palenque project. \u201cIt\u2019s become much broader, and we\u2019re learning all kinds of things that were not known just 25 years ago.\u201d Steve Zylius \/ UCI<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

UCI professor uses linguistics, DNA<\/a> to help long-isolated Colombian community descended from escaped slaves find its roots<\/em><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, Armin Schwegler<\/a> traveled to Colombia<\/a> to visit the Palenque people<\/a>, an ethnic group dating to the 18th century that speaks a unique, Spanish-based Creole language, Palenquero<\/a>. The original members were runaway slaves who succeeded in becoming the first officially freed black slaves anywhere in the Americas<\/a>. Living in virtual isolation for more than 300 years, the Palenqueros have managed to retain their native ancestral culture, much of which originated in sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this day, they are phenotypically the darkest, most \u2018African\u2019 community in Latin America<\/a>,\u201d says Schwegler, a UCI professor of Spanish & Portuguese.<\/p>\n

A common misconception is that the slave trade was essentially a North American<\/a> phenomenon. Actually, Latin America received 96 percent of all African slaves. In the 17th century, Cartagena de Indias<\/a> \u2013 in Colombia \u2013 was the region\u2019s main slave market, and it was from this port city that the Palenqueros escaped to become maroons<\/a>. Their official history was never written down, and until recently, their African origins were completely unknown…<\/p>\n

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