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The Afro-Latino Presence In Late Colonial Spanish San Antonio, Diana González Villarreal
The Afro-Latino Presence In Late Colonial Spanish San Antonio, Diana González Villarreal
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020
San Antonio is one of the oldest cities in what is currently the state of Texas. For tens of millennia, Natives have inhabited the entirety of the Americas, and also more specifically the area that is now San Antonio because of its fertile soil and rivers; it is this geographic feature that facilitates the thriving of civilizations. As such, the European Spanish settlers and missionaries established their presence in this very area as early as 1718. Since then, the inevitable miscegenation that resulted has molded the identity of what is now San Antonio, Texas, with over 300 years of documented …