The First Free Slave Town in the Americas 🇨🇴
Before freedom was written into law, it was lived here — in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. 🇨🇴✨ Founded in the 1600s by Africans who escaped enslavement, Palenque became the first free Black town in the Americas — a safe haven where our ancestors built their own systems of law, education, and