PT. 1 — 🇲🇽✊🏾 Afro-Mexicans: A History Erased, A People Reclaimed ✊🏾🇲🇽 Did you know that colonial Mexico received more enslaved Africans than the United States? For centuries, their descendants were erased from the national story, hidden behind the idea of a “mestizo” identity (Spanish Indigenous only). But history cannot be silenced forever. In 2015, Mexicans could finally identify as Afro-descendant on a government survey for the first time. And by the 2020 Census, more than 2.5 million M