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lack of information was due less to their
not existing, and more to a priori notions become prejudices by researchers
who undervalued working efficiently,
and created an incomplete history.
When no one was interested in them
anymore, when they were condemned,
they were summarily relegated to the
past and social oblivion; when academe
so totally and implacably sentenced that
nothing was known about their music,
because it disappeared, with them, by
the end of the nineteenth century, AfroArgentines demonstrated that they had
one more card to play: their agency,
when they came on the scene and exclaimed the same thing Lucía Molina,
from Santa Fe, wrote in 1998: “They
brought us here!/Here we’ll stay!/And
now, HERE WE ARE/fighting for our
rights!