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    Mexican Maroons

    Enslaved people worked in different plantations and industries. Silver, textile, sugar, sesame, fishing, domestic, ect. Maroons escaped to North West to Vera Cruz Mountains.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxYdlOOMJuE
    Modern day Yanga, Veracruz MX

     

    Statue of Maroon Leader Gasper Yanga in Vera Cruz Mexico.

    Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives is a great secondary source in describing Gasper Yanga’s elite status is an African Prince who was kidnapped and forced into slavery.

    https://youtu.be/jp3PQ-_Z9hQ
    Gasper Yanga Biopic Animation
    https://youtu.be/g8RtY6qt92A
    Yanga: 400 anos de Libertad (Years of Freedom) Documentary 2012

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGxwO81fsE&t=2s
    Group of women and children, Islamic missionaries visit the Vera Cruz statue in Spring 2008.

    Map of Costa Rica Region and Vera Cruz territories:

     

    Maroonage lives in the indigenous traditions, terrain, and DNA of local native Afro-Mexican community.