Like the Haitians and those of African descent didn’t help Simon Bolivar in military and political sectors in the countries of Venezuala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and to independence from the Spanish empire. ALL immigrants benefited from the assistance of black revolutionaries. The ratification of the 14th Amendment in July 1868 transformed national belonging, and made African Americans, and indeed all those born on U.S. soil, citizens. The reason why all immigrants benefited from black American uprisings. Black slaves participated in many of the wars of liberation from Spanish colonial rule in Latin America, While they were sitting on their asses. as black people pushed for racial equality and integration. palenqueras were among the first ancestors who fled from Cartagena in the 16th century to found one of the first settlements of escaped slaves in the Americas. from 1521 to 1594 around 75,000 to 90,000 Africans were brought to Latin America, especially to Mexico, a territory held by the Spanish. “The numbers of Africans that arrived to Mexico and Peru between 1521 and 1639 were around 110,525. Gomez further mentions that by the formal emancipation in 1827, some 200,000 Africans had labored only in Mexico. In some countries like Cuba and Hispaniola by 1560 the Africans outnumbered Europeans” . The Winds of Manguito: Cuban Folktales in English and Spanish. As Perez states, “Men, women, and children were taken by force from their native lands [in Africa] and brought to Cuba to work the fields. With them they brought their native rhythms, languages, and cultures. Their music, dance, and stories became an integral component of Cuban folklore” . Many slave rebellions occurred in Brazil, most famously the Bahia Rebellion of 1822-1830 and the Malê Revolt of 1835 by the predominantly Muslim West African slaves at the time. During the 16th century, Africans and their descendants outnumbered Iberians and their descendants in Mexico City, Lima and Salvador da Bahia—the three principal cities of colonial Latin America. Between the 16th and mid-19th centuries, more than ten million West and Central West Africans (with an additional 720,000 from Southeastern Africa) were forcibly taken to work on the plantations, gold and silver mines, and in the cities of Spanish and Portuguese colonists in the Americas. Resistance to slavery took place at the first point of contact in Africa and continued at sea and in the colonies in various ways such as feigning illness, poisoning masters, setting fire to crops, escaping and armed rebellions.
In America, black Americans have been THE FIGHTERS - These Africans mixed with Taino and Arawak peoples in the Caribbean, and Wayuu, Caquetio, and Chocó, among other tribes, and their descendants, on the mainland. Many others escaped slavery by taking their own lives and “flying” back to Africa, rather than face the social death and brutality of slavery—or they ran away into the hinterland. The latter runaways, called “maroons”— a word that comes from the Spanish cimarrón (used to describe wild or escaped cattle)—fled into the forests, swamps, hills and mountains, where they entrenched themselves—and, from there, continued to wage war.