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Estevanico was a Moroccan slave who joined the Narváez expedition to Florida in 1528. He survived shipwrecks, enslavement and attacks, and became the first person of African descent to explore North America.
Nov 18, 2022 · One of the earliest explorers of North America was an African-born slave by the name of Esteban de Dorantes, or Estevanico. His historical role has been largely overlooked.
Estevanico was a Moroccan slave who traveled with Spanish explorers from Florida to the southwestern United States in the sixteenth century. He was captured by Native Americans, escaped, and became a "medicine man" before being killed by Zuni warriors.
Jun 28, 2019 · Learn about Esteban de Dorantes, an enslaved African who explored the Southwest with the Coronado Expedition. Discover his mysterious fate and his role as a translator and scout for the Spanish.
Dec 12, 2006 · Mendoza (1864–1884, 2:206) considered that Estevanico would be appropriate for such a mission because he was a ‘“persona de razón,” that is, a man of reason and ability; he surely would have been informed by the three caballeros of the great role Estevanico had played as scout and mediator.’
- Richard A. Gordon
- 2006
Aug 25, 2023 · Estevanico, also spelled Estebanico, was a native of Azamor on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In Spain prior to 1527, he was baptized as a Christian and became the slave of Andrés Dorantes de Carranza.
One of the most fascinating, and least understood, men in the history of the American Southwest was the Moroccan “slave” known as Estevanico de Dorantes in sixteenth-century Spanish accounts of New Spain.
