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Jan 1, 1501
Spanish first bring African slaves to the New World
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Jan 1, 1513
Juan Garrido and Juan Gonzalez
Free Africans Juan Garrido and Juan Gonzalez go with Ponce de Leon on his exploration of La Florida -
Jan 1, 1526
Lucas Vazquez de Allyon
The first enslaved Africans brought to Noth America by Lucas Vazquez de Allyon help establish the settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape which is present day Georgia -
Jan 1, 1528
Panfilo Narvaez
Panfilo Narvaez makes an unsucessful attempt to settle a area near Tampa Bay with 600 people including African slaves -
Jan 1, 1536
Estevanico
One of four survivors of the failed Tampa Bay settlement Estevanico helps four other people survive and end up in Mexico City due to his ability to communicate with native americans he also was a African slave -
Jan 1, 1539
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto explores Florida and most of southeast United States with the help of free and enslaved Africans -
Jan 1, 1565
St.Augustine
St.Augustine is the oldest permanent city in the U.S established by Spain which was home to 600 people and 50 African slaves i n which some of the slaves escaped into the wilderness -
Freedom
The Spanish goverment in Florida grants all runaway slaves from the south if they agree to convert Roman Catholicism -
Escape
Hundreds of runaway slave from english plantations in the south runaway to Florida because the Spanish goverments new decision to give runaway slaves freedom -
Fort Mose
Fransisco Menendez an escaped slave agrees to defend Florida from the British for freedom and establishes Fort Mose the first free black settlement in present day U.S.A -
Capture of Fort Mose
The English capture Fort Mose but the blacks and spaniards quickly recapture it -
Trade
Spain trades Florida to the English for Havana,Cuba. Then more slaves are imported from Africa or bought from other southern colonies
