Discover the untold story of Gaspar Yanga, the African-born leader who led one of the first successful slave rebellions in the Americas. Taken from his homeland, Yanga rose against Spanish rule in Veracruz, Mexico, and founded the first free Black town in the New World — long before Haiti’s revolution. His courage and leadership turned resistance into freedom, and his legacy still lives on in Yanga, Mexico, today. This is the story they didn’t teach in school — the story of Africa’s royal rebel