Are African Americans in El Salvador?

Speaking of Black people, I was wondering if El Salvador once had an African presence like the rest of Latin America due to the slave trade. So many people I saw were quite dark. I asked this of the cab driver, but he denied that El Salvador ever had a black presence. read more

No, there are not any Afro-Salvadorans. Unlike its neighbors, El Salvador does not have a sizeable population with African ancestry. There are not any Africans because of policies that were enacted by previous presidents of El Salvador back in the early 1900s. read more

Pardo people, are Pardo is the term that was used in colonial El Salvador to describe a Afro person of Indigenous, European, and African descent. Because of their racial admixture A total of 10,000 African slaves were brought to El Salvador over the span of 75 years, starting around 1548. read more

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