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Pánfilo de Narváez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaɱfilo ðe naɾˈβaeθ]; born 1470 or 1478, [3] died 1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas. Born in Spain , he first sailed to the island of Jamaica (then Santiago) in 1510 as a soldier.
Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5981-0. Adorno, Rolena; Pautz, Patrick (1999-09-15). Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Panfilo de Narváez. Vol. 3 vol. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1463-7.
After the victory and conquest, the Cempoala Totonacs soon took their new destiny next to their foreign partners: were re-located and had to leave the city as they were Christianized, banned from practicing their ancient cults and were turned into slaves to work new Spanish sugar cane fields.
Cortés was leading a semblance of an expedition in eastern Mexico, amassing treasures in an attempt to convince the King of Spain to leave his conquest enterprise beyond Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar’s control. When Velázquez heard about this, he was furious. He decided to send Pánfilo de Narváez to regain control of the expedition.
Moroccan presence in the United States was rare until the mid-twentieth century. The first North African who came to the current United States was probably Estebanico Al Azemmouri (also called Estevanico), a Muslim Moroccan of Gnawa descent, [2] who participated in Pánfilo de Narváez's ill-fated expedition to colonize Florida and the Gulf Coast in 1527.
Andrés de la Tovilla (c. 1513–1554) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas. He was born about 1513 in Cazorla, Spain.He is most remembered as a participant in the expedition to Mexico (1520) led by Panfilo de Narváez and the expedition for the conquest of Guatemala (1524–1525) commissioned by Hernán Cortés.
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Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America. He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition , along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Andrés Dorantes de Carranza , and Alonso del Castillo ...