CLASSIC MAYA PLATE, c. 200-900 A.D.“The most ancient traditions induce us to believe that the Negroes were the first inhabitants of Mexico”

CLASSIC MAYA PLATE, c. 200-900 A.D.

“The most ancient traditions induce us to believe that the Negroes were the first inhabitants of Mexico”

“The oldest inhabitants of Mexico, according to some were Negroes. The existence of Negroes and of giants is commonly believed by nearly all the races of our soil and in their various languages they had words to designate them…”

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(El Colegio de Mexico “Historia general de México”; 1919)

“It is indisputable that in very ancient times...the Negro race occupied our territory (Mexico)...This race brought its own religious cults and ideals"

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(Mexico a traves de los siglos, Vol. I, pp. 63-67. Mexico, 1887.)

“The Negro type is seen in the MOST ANCIENT Mexican sculpture, the Negroes figure frequently in the most remote traditions of some American pueblos. It is to this race doubtlessly belongs the MOST ANCIENT skeletons, DISTINCT FROM THE RED AMERICAN RACE, which have been found in various places from Bolivia to Mexico...It is likely that, we repeat, that long ago the 'youthful' America was also a Negro continent"

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(Carlos Cuervo Marquez, ‘Estudios Arquelogicos y Etnograficos. Vol. I’, pp. 270-73 Madrid; 1920.)