Exploration
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1539
Estevanico Explores the American Southwest
Estevanico (Esteban de Dorantes), an enslaved Moroccan-born African, became one of the first non-Indigenous people to explore the American Southwest.
1521
Juan Garrido Participates in Conquest of Tenochtitlan
Juan Garrido, a free Black conquistador from West Africa, participated in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital and later became one of the first people to grow wheat in the Americas.