 Despite the gradual emancipation of most black slaves in Peru, slavery continued along the Pacific coast of South America throughout the 19th century, as Peruvian slave traders kidnapped Polynesians, primarily from the Marquesas Islands and Easter Island and forced them to perform physical labour in mines and in the guano industry of Peru and Chile.Afro-Peruvian music has its roots in the communities of black slaves brought to work in the mines along the Peruvian coast.As such, it's a fair way from the Andes, culturally and geographically.