Afro-Bolivians are descendants of the enslaved West Africans imported to the South American country under Spanish colonial rule from the 16th to the 19th centuries to work in the mines of Potosi, a city in southwestern Bolivia. But most of the about half a million slaves that arrived in Bolivia (then the colonial territory of...
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