Visiting the first free black town of the new world in Colombia

Haiti is the first country where black slaves declared their freedom as an independent nation.

But what is far less known is that 200 years earlier, slaves in Colombia established the first free black town in the new world.

Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports from San Basilio de Palengue, Colombia.

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