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Afro-Honduran

Afro-Honduran Honduras
Total population
(600,000 (3%))
Regions with significant populations
Creole people: Bay Islands and some Caribbean coastal Honduran cities like Puerto Cortes, Tela and La Ceiba;
Garifuna people: Roatan Island, Trujillo, Honduras
Languages
Spanish, Garifuna, English
Religion
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Garifuna
Related ethnic groups
Sub-saharan Africans, Afro-Anglo American, Caribs.

Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of African descent. They descended from African slaves imported by the Spanish, Garifunas and Creole peoples. The Creole people are originally from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, and arrived in Honduras between the nineteenth and early twentieth century to work on the export of bananas and in construction.

The National Assembly of Afro-Honduran Organizations and Communities put the population at 10%.

According to the Human Development Report of the United Nations for Central America, in 2003 there would be 200,000 Garifuna (a community comprising descendents of Carib Indians and black Africans, who the British exported to Honduras from Saint Vincent after a rebellion) in Honduras, while in 2011 their number was estimated at 600,000 people (8% of the population). Regarding the Creole peoples, it is estimated that his number is around 32,000 people.

One of the first African slaves who arrived in Honduras, Juan Bardales, participated in the Spanish conquest of the province, especially in Trujillo. Shortly thereafter, Berdales was awarded with his freedom. In Honduras, slaves played an important role in the mining industry. Many of them came from Africa, from places like Angola or Senegambia, while others came from the Caribbean. In 1542, 165 slaves came via Portugal and 150 from Santo Domingo. In Honduras, were imported slaves Mandinka kangkurao of the Gambia River in Senegambia.

By the mid-sixteenth century, between 1000 and 1500 enslaved blacks worked in the gold washings of Olancho, slaves who possibly hailed from Africa. In Honduras, for 1590, arrived in Olancho and at Rio Guayape three hundred Africans for work in mining. A crew of Angolas worked in the mines and businesses in San Miguel. Although many mulattoes and browns also worked in Tegucigalpa for the same dates. Between 1750 and 1779, a larger group of African slaves, Carabali and mondongos (a Kongo tribe) people, were taken to Honduras to build the military fort San Fernando de Omoa, the most important in the region.


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