Approximately twenty-six of the 44 original settlers of Los Angeles were of African or mixed ancestry. Located on the Plaza, the Pobladores Plaque, memorializes the people who settled Los Angeles in the early 1800s. Under Spanish rule, the governor of Baja (lower) and Alta (upper) California recruited Pobladores (settlers) from northern Mexico to this site to raise food for soldiers in the nearby forts. The plaque indicates about half of the Pobladores were Negro or Mulatto (Negro and Spanish), with the majority of the remaining being Indian or Mestizo (Indian and Spanish); only two of the Pobladores were Spanish. The plaque is set on the plaza in front of Olvera Street.
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