African-born leaders like Yanga won formal free-settlement status
Evidence
In the mountains near Mt. Orizaba, led by this man called Yanga, “reputedly a Congolese chief from an African kingdom bordered by the Nyonga River,” the “Yanguicos” had won the formal status as a free Black settlement. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 656
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Category: Factual Claims