And without further ado, I wanna hand it over to Ron, who's gonna get us started.

Hello.

Well, I'm really, really excited and honored to be here, and especially to be working with, uh, Sonia and Josh, whose writing I've been following for a long time.

Um, so this is great.

Um, the tango, of course, uh, originated in, uh, Argentina and Uruguay i-in their capital cities, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where El Tango, it is important to say, developed among descendants of enslaved Africans in those lands.

Uruguay had abolished slavery in the 1840s, but in Argentina, where in the early years of the nineteenth century up to a third of the population of Buenos Aires was reportedly Black, complete abolition was not, uh, achieved until 1861.

During that time, uh, maritime trade also brought Afro-Caribbean sailors and culture to South America, and with it, the Cuban Habanera.

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And without further ado, I want to hand it over to Ron, who's going to get us started.

Hello.

Hello.

Really, really excited and honored to be here and especially to be working with Sonia and Josh, whose writing I've been following for a long time.

So this is great.

The tango, of course, originated in Argentina and Uruguay in their capital cities, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where el tango, it is important to say, developed among descendants of enslaved Africans in those lands.

Uruguay had abolished slavery in the 1840s, but in Argentina, where in the early years of the 19th century, up to a third of the population of Buenos Aires was reportedly black, complete abolition was not achieved until 1861.

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