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Can somebody explain the racial makeup of the Central American/Caribbean Islands? Are the majority black populations indigenous to any extent or is their presence exclusively a result of the slave trade? What happened to the original inhabitants and what do we know about their culture?

by /u/AThievingStableBoy in /r/AskHistorians

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