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Unit 13
Grades 9-10
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Gaspar Yanga's Long Shadow and Contemporary Afro-Latino Voices

Recall from Unit 3 the story of Gaspar Yanga, the formerly enslaved man who led a decades-long rebellion in colonial Mexico, eventually forcing Spanish authorities to recognize San Lorenzo de los Negros, later renamed Yanga, as the first legally free Black town in the Americas.…

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