Across
- 6. second largest Black(Afro) population in South America
- 7. this country colonized the majority of South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
- 8. a month set aside to honor the contributions of Black people to the world
- 10. the capturing, selling, and buying of enslaved persons
- 12. mass dispersion of peoples from Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- 13. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
Down
- 1. system to classify all of the Americas' various races and racial combinations
- 2. Persons of the first generation of a Spanish and Black/African ancestry
- 3. guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion
- 4. action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
- 5. first free Black town in the Americas
- 9. Colombia's first Black female vice president
- 11. refers to people from Latin American countries with African ancestry