Estéban | African-Spanish explorer | Britannica (original) (raw)

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exploration of Florida

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  In Florida: Exploration and settlement
  …Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estebán, a Moorish slave who was the first black man known to have entered Florida—reached Culiacán, Mexico, in 1536. Hernando de Soto came in 1539, landing somewhere between Fort Myers and Tampa, and led another disastrous expedition, this time through western Florida. Nearly 20 years…
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history of African Americans

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  In African Americans: The early history of Black people in the Americas
  …explorer of the Americas was Estéban, who traveled through the Southwest in the 1530s.
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search for cities of Cíbola

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  In Seven Cities of Cíbola
  …an expedition in 1539 under Estéban, a black slave who had been shipwrecked with Cabeza de Vaca, and Fray Marcos de Niza to verify de Vaca’s reports. Fray Marcos, assured of the cities’ existence by an Indian informant, claimed to have seen them in the distance. In 1540 Mendoza dispatched…
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