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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!