{"id":2237,"date":"2025-02-07T02:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2025-02-16T04:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:58:26","slug":"about-01-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/summaries\/about-01-intro","title":{"rendered":"Content and purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2237\" class=\"elementor elementor-2237\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e59d9f4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e59d9f4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5a723b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e5a723b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Content and purpose<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce9d3d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ce9d3d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>First Blacks in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0is a fully bilingual (English and Spanish) digital educational platform devoted to disseminating sound historical information about the early presence of people of Black African ancestry in the first colonial society of the Americas of modern times, the society of the colony named\u00a0<em>La Espa\u00f1ola<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018The Spanish One\u2019) by the Spanish colonizers\u00a0when they arrived in 1492 and throughout the sixteenth-century. 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