Estevanico, a black explorer, leads an expedition from Mexico into what is now Arizona and New Mexico.ġ562. The African captives soon flee to the interior, however, and settle with Native Americans.ġ538. The first group of Africans to set foot on what is now the United States is brought by a Spanish explorer to South Carolina to erect a settlement. Thirty black men accompany Balboa when he discovers the Pacific Ocean.ġ526. Spain authorizes the use of African slaves in Cuba. Portugal brings its first shipload of African slaves to the Western Hemisphere, selling them in what is now Latin America.ġ513. The Spanish throne officially approves the use of African slaves in the New World.ġ502. Pedro Alonzo Niño, identified by some scholars as a black man, arrives with Christopher Columbus.ġ501. Blacks are among the first explorers to the New World.
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