When I was in Zacatecas, our tour guide, who took
us to my grandmother's hometown of Jerez, looked mulatto.  But I wasn't
about to tell him that he looked mulatto.  BTW, Al, which ancestor bought
slaves?  Marge V.:)


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Alberto
Duarte


Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:17
PM

Subject: Re: [ranchos] SALUDOS TO
EVERYONE


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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