Historical Archive of the Istmina Circuit Court (1860-1930)
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Muntú Bantú is a Memory Center for Documentation and Afrodiasporic Materialities located in Quibdó, the capital city of Chocó, Colombia. Thank you for visiting our digital archive, where we seek to showcase archives and primary sources important to the history of the Chocó, the Colombian Pacific region, and the African Diaspora. Archivo Afro has received financial support from the Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative grant N-2009-09221 entitled “Dispossessions in the Americas: the Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from la Conquista to the Present”, administered by the University of Pennsylvania and coordinated by Principal Investigator: Tulia G. Falleti. We are also grateful for additional funding received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Michigan. Thank you to everyone: the Semillero de Jóvenes of Muntú Bantú, María Fernanda Parra, Sergio Mosquera Mosquera, Daniel Varela Corredor, Claudia Leal, Kelly López-Roldán, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Daniel Tubb, Cynthia Heider, Brie Gettleson, and Andy Janco.
