Afro-Mexicans (Spanish: afromexicanos), also known as Black Mexicans (Spanish: mexicanos negros), are Mexicans who have predominant heritage from Sub-Saharan Africa and identify as such. As a single population, Afro-Mexicans include individuals descended from enslaved Africans brought to Mexico during the colonial era in the transatlantic African slave trade, relatively new migrants including Afro-descended people from neighboring English, French, and Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean and Central America, descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped to Mexico from the Deep South during Slavery in the United States, and to a lesser extent recent migrants directly from Africa. Today, there are communities in Mexico that obtain large percentages of African ancestry. Afro-Mexicans ar