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Today a portrait of Don Feliciano Ramos, a former slave turned successful merchant, hangs in the sacristy of the church he commissioned in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán: the Sanctuario de Guadalupe (1832). Ramos’s life, commission, and portrait all speak to Mexico’s racialized landscape, and both the portrait and church argue for Afro-Mexican belonging in Mexico, beyond the tropics.