What is Afro-Colombian?
[[File:(2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report) - A schoolboy in Florida (Valle), in Colombia.jpg|thumbnail|Afro-Colombian boy attending school in Colombia ]] '''Afro-Colombians''' are people who are from the country of [[Colombia]] and who have [[ancestor]]s who are [[African]]. There is a large population of Colombians of African descent. == History == [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonists]] brought [[Africa]]n [[Slavery|slaves]] to [[Cartagena de Indias|Cartagena]] in the [[16th century|sixteenth century]]. They were purchased to replace the [[indigenous peoples]] who died under the harsh working conditions in the [[mine]]s and on the [[plantation]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.minorityrights.org/5373/colombia/afrocolombians.html |title=AFRO-COLOMBIANS; Profile |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples |access-date=19 December 2014}}</ref> The main slave [[port]] for the colony (then [[New Kingdom of Granada|Granada]]) was Cartagena.<ref name=EC>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyculture.com/South-America/Afro-Colombians-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html |title=Afro-Colombians - History and Cultural Relations |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=Advameg, Inc. |access-date=19 December 2014}}</ref> By 1600 about 100,000 slaves had been brought to the colony. The rate increased after 1650 because of labor needed for the gold mines.<ref name=EC/> [[wikt:Conditions|Conditions]] were harsher for some slaves than others. Most were allowed to mine, [[farming|farm]] and sell their goods for one day a week. The [[money]] they made could buy their [[freedom]].<ref name=EC/> Slave [[rebellion]]s in the sixteenth and [[18th century|eighteenth centuries]] had slaves forming their own [[village]]s in uncontrolled areas. Slavery was [[wikt:abolish|abolish]]ed in 1851.<ref name=EC/> == References == {{Commonscat|African Colombians}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Colombian people|*]] {{geo-stub}}