The history of the African population of colonial Mexico and its participation in the independent period (19th and 20th centuries) has been a silenced, fragmented, invisible history. The emergence and strengthening in contemporary Mexican society of a greater awareness of the built from African heritage has come to complicate the identity narratives that have traditionally been the Mexican recognizing experiences only of indigenous Afro-descendants, and Spanish it is heritage. necessary To to understand investigate the regional particularities histories; of in of construction of the Mexican State and, in the dynamics of the slave trade of the colonial process times.