Visiting the first free black town of the new world in Colombia
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Haiti is the first country where black slaves declared their freedom as an independent nation. But what is far less known is that 200 years earlier, slaves in Colombia established the first free black town in the new world. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from San Basilio de Palengue, Colombia. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/