1. According to Dr.

Gate, most enslaved Africans in the new world through the Sambar port of
Vancouver. It is known as the main point of entry for Latin American slavery. All commodities that
arrived in Mexico, including the enslaved Africans, were unloaded here in 1535. Hundred to
thousands of enslaved Africans reached Mexico through this port. It took almost two months to get
here. The number of enslaved Africans increased a lot here. Until 1650, their population was almost
equal to the number of white people living there.
2. Casta paintings are eighteenth-century paintings. They are in the national museum of Mexico.
Those were painted to show the European diversity of people in Mexico. Casta paintings total 16 in
number that is taken as anthropological cookbooks. They offer the results of mixing the genes of
black, brown, and white people. Shortly, they show the diversity of people who came due to
interracial marriages.
3.
Professor Sagrario Cruz had an epiphany about the inheritance of her family. She did not know that
she was part black. She did not realize this fact until she was 19 years old. While showing the old
pictures, she revealed that her father was black and her mother was white. She came to know when
she visited Cuba. They began to talk about African heritage, and she realized that her family was
black. Her father and grandfather were black. When she tasted food there, she recalled that it was the
same food her grandmother cooked. This news was like knowing the sudden announcement of being
adopted.
4
I did not know until I watched a video that the second president of Mexico, Vicente Guerrero was a
black man who abolished slavery in Africa before the US did. He was an afro descendant general in
the war of independence. His father asked him to surrender before the Spanish, but he told him that
his country came first. In 1830, he abolished slavery by writing the law in the constitution. He won
freedom for enslaved people and removed the racial categories from marriage, birth, and death
certificates. Many towns in Mexico are after his name.
5.
I would say people of both kinds have played significant roles in my life. My family, friends,
colleagues, teachers, and many more people from both categories are involved in my life. I have a
close bond with them, which greatly influenced me. For instance, one of my childhood buddies was
brown, whereas my favorite teacher, who influenced my life a lot, was from high school, and she was
white. I can not deny the effect of any of these in my life.