AFROAMERICA

Abstract

José Marcial Ramos Guédez, Venezuelan historian, tells us in this work about the contribution to the Venezuelan culture of the black transplanted cultures for more than three centuries of the colonial period, in so many diverse fields such as religion, music, dance, oral literature, linguistic, toponimics, the culinary art, traditional medicine, arts and crafts, plastic arts, beliefs, myths and traditions which are still conserved and have been constituted as an essential part of the Venezuelan identity.