The Cities
CORDOBA
FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS AGO AN AFRICAN SLAVE NAMED GASPAR YANGA WAS ONE OF THRE FIRST BLACK LIBERATORS IN THE AMERICAS. HE LED ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SLAVE REBELLIONS. GASPAR YANGA WAS BORN IN 1545 IN WEST AFRICA AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF AFRICA'S GABON, HE WAS A PRINCE. NOW FORCED TO CHOP CANE ALL DAY FOR NO PAY AND SUFFERING THE WHIP, HE ESCAPED INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND FOUND OTHERS TO JOIN HIM AMONG THE INDIGENOUS WHO WERE ALSO REPRESSED. THEY BEGAN RAISING THE MULE TRAINS OF VALUABLE COMMERCE TRAVELING FOR THE CITY OF VERACRUZ TO ORIZABA. SOON THE WORD SPREAD AS THE HOUSE SLAVES HEARD OF HIS DARING EXPLOITS AND TOLD THE FIELD WORKERS, MORE ESCAPED TO JOIN HIM. A GARRISON WAS PLACED ALONG THE ROAD TO PATROL FOR HIM, SOON FOOD STANDS WERE PLACED THERE BY THE INDIGENOUS AND OTHER SHOPS. THE CITY OF CORDOBA NOW STANDS WHERE THIS GARRISON WAS PLACED.