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Was Emiliano Zapata Afro-Mexican?

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No, that is incorrect. Emiliano Zapata was of Nahua and Spanish ancestry. Having said that.. Mexico is *very* mixed - the article has that right. So nobody in Mexico can completely disprove having some African DNA without an actual test, but if Zapata does have some, it's likely very little. read more

Not that I know. He was mestizo. I worked with a historian, whose life has been devoted to the topic of Emiliano Zapata and even interviewed his widow back in the 1970s. I translated a lot of information on him and never saw any evidence that he was Afro-Mexican. read more

One of the Afro-Mexican Zapata homes was next door to two Afro-Mexican families with the name of one of Emiliano's other grandparent lines, the Cerezos. All told, two thirds of the families of Emiliano grandparent lines were Afro-Mexican. read more

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano saˈpata]; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. read more

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