Re: [ranchos] SALUDOS TO EVERYONE

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

Note:
I have a historical event book from Jerez, and there
is an article where they were selling black and
mulatto slaves on the open market (early 1700s). In
fact, I believe one of my ancestors buying them.

Question: What happened to all these slaves?  When I
went to Jerez, I didn't see a single black!  I believe
they were assimilated in to the population.

Any comments?

Alberto.


--- alice wissing <alice_wissing@...> wrote:

> Esperanza,
>  
> I'm curious where you read about the blacks
> outnumbering the Spaniards in Zacatecas.  I've got
> really weird hair and have been traced with
> certainty to a few coyotes and a black, all from
> Durango, which is next to Zacatecas.  I've never met
> another Mexican with hair as strange as mine -
> coarse, dark, wavy, and it won't hold a curl.  I can
> even forecast the weather with this hair.  Once I
> told everyone it was going to rain and it was sunny
> out.  Nobody believed me and then it rained that
> night.  Sometimes I think God gave me this hair so
> I'd always have something to do.
>  
> Alice
> 
> latina1955@... wrote:
> Actually, for a while, blacks outnumbered Spaniards
> in Zacatecas as well because they were being used in
> the silver mines that dot the whole state.  Did you
> know that Michoacan had an enormous amount of
> Africans there early on as well?  
>  
> Both my husband (from Michoacan) and myself would
> bet that we have African blood running through our
> veins - primarily because of the very nappy hair
> that both sides of the relatives have.
>  
> Esperanza
> 
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