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Mexico was an important and early territory for the Spanish. As such, Africans arrived to provide labor under harsh conditions and prove that the land was survivable by a population known to Europe.

The following is from Bobby Vaughn's Black Mexico Homepage at: http://www.stanford.edu/~bvaughn/

Black Population in Colonial Mexico
1570 20,569
1646 35, 089
1742 15,980

The numerical significance of these figures becomes clear when we compare them to the Spanish population of the colonial era. In the early colonial period, European immigration was extremely small--and for good reason. There were great risks and many uncertainties in the New World, and few families were willing to immigrate until some assurance of stability was demonstrated. Because of this hesitance, very few European women immigrated, thus preventing the natural growth of the Spanish population.

The point that must be made here is the fact that the black population in the early colony was by far larger than that of the Spanish. In 1570 we see that the black population is about 3 times that of the Spanish. In 1646, it is about 2.5 times as large, and in 1742, blacks still outnumber the Spanish. It is not until 1810 that Spaniards are more numerous.

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