Featured on this website is “Los negros de Esmeraldas,” a 1599 portrait of the leaders of a maroon (runaway slave community) in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Pictured are 57 year old Don Francisco (middle) and his two sons Don Pedro (left, 22) and Don Domingo (right, 18).

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