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Gaspar Yanga

c. 1545 – ? (active c. 1570 – 1618)

Veracruz, New Spain (Mexico)

An African-born maroon leader near Veracruz, Yanga resisted a Spanish campaign in 1609 and won recognition of a free settlement, San Lorenzo de los Negros, now the town of Yanga.

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Orizaba, Veracruz, seen from a bridge in an 1880s photochrom; Yanga's maroons held out in the mountains of this region
Credit: William Henry Jackson / Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress. License: Public domain (LOC: no known restrictions; 1884-1900).

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  1. Prairie View A&M University, Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture, "Gaspar Yanga" (Scholarly)
  2. BlackPast, "Yanga, Gaspar (c. 1545-?)" (Reference)
  3. Karen Juanita Carrillo, JSTOR Daily, "Mexico's First Liberated City Commemorates Its Founding" (Reference)

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