Juan Garrido
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Juan Garrido was an Afro-Spaniard conquistador known as the first documented black person in what would become the United States. Born in West Africa, he went to Portugal as a young man. In converting to Catholicism, he chose the Spanish name Juan... Wikipedia
Born: May 29, 1487, West Africa
Died: 1550 (age 63 years), New Spain
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Sep 19, 2017 · Juan Garrido a.k.a "Handsome John" was an free African conquistador who worked alongside Ponce de Leon for thirteen years.
Juan Garrido (c. 1480 – c. 1550) was an Afro-Spaniard conquistador known as the first documented black person in what would become the United States.
Feb 24, 2009 · Born around 1480 in West Africa, Juan Garrido is the most prominent among the small group of African freemen who traveled to the Americas to ...
*The birth of Juan Garrido in 1487 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black African Spanish conquistador. Born in Africa, he went to Portugal as a slave.
Garrido was born circa 1480 on the coast of West Africa and went to Lisbon as a free young man. According to Alegría, he was probably the son of a king who ...
Under Cortés, Garrido journeys to the Pacific coast and Baja California. He is placed in charge of a number of African and indigenous slaves brought as ...
Juan Garrido is the best-known of the numerous African explorers who went to La Florida. He was sold into slavery as a child and taken to Lisbon (Portugal). He ...
By 1519, Juan Garrido was already a veteran black conquistador. He was a free traveler and explorer of many lands, joining in other smaller expeditions and ...
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Garrido, Juan c. 1480c. 1547 From the onset of the Spanish exploration and invasion of the Americas in the 1490s, Africans were brought across the Atlantic ...