Henry Louis Gates Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: b. September 16, 1950
Birthday: September 16
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
topic: Thinking, Land, Cities, Peru, Acapulco, Gulf Of Mexico, Slave Trade
