The forgotten African roots of Aruba.
I wanted to create this post because I have read on different websites that Arubans are mostly descendants of the indigenous people of Aruba and Europeans with no African ancestry whatsoever. As if the black population in Aruba are only the descendants of immigrants from mainly the Anglophone Caribbean and other islands, as if slavery never existed in Aruba at all, in Curacao? Of course! Bonaire? Sure! Sint Maarten? Totally! Sint Eustatius? Yup! Saba? Duh!, but in Aruba? Nope. I even found a old blog about the 'real' history of Aruba, which was pretty interesting but the author only told about the Amerindians and Europeans, and I grew tired of it. In Aruba there is not that much mention regarding slavery in Aruba, they only know about slavery in Curacao and take much pride in their indigenous ancestry which Aruba teaches, in contrast to Curacao in which the opposite happens, indigenous roots are pretty much ignored and they only tell you that Arubans and Bonairians ...