Africans

Africans in Colonial Florida

By taybanay
  • Spanish settlers bring first slaves to the New World
    Jan 1, 1501

    Spanish settlers bring first slaves to the New World

  • Free Africans Juan Garrido and Juan Gonzalez de Leon accompany Ponce de Leon in his exploration of La Florida
    Jan 1, 1513

    Free Africans Juan Garrido and Juan Gonzalez de Leon accompany Ponce de Leon in his exploration of La Florida

  • First enslaved Africans brought to North America by Lucas Vazquez de Allyon expedition; established settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in present-day Georgia; this is the first European settlement in the geographic United States
    Jan 1, 1526

    First enslaved Africans brought to North America by Lucas Vazquez de Allyon expedition; established settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in present-day Georgia; this is the first European settlement in the geographic United States

  • Panfilo Narvaez attempts to settle area near Tampa Bay with 600 people including slaves. Lack of supplies and hurricanes doom venture.
    Jan 1, 1528

    Panfilo Narvaez attempts to settle area near Tampa Bay with 600 people including slaves. Lack of supplies and hurricanes doom venture.

  • Four survivors of the doomed Tampa Bay settlement end up in Gulf Coast after walking through the wilderness for eight years. Estevanico, an African slave, ensures their survival by learning to communicate with natives along the way.
    Jan 1, 1536

    Four survivors of the doomed Tampa Bay settlement end up in Gulf Coast after walking through the wilderness for eight years. Estevanico, an African slave, ensures their survival by learning to communicate with natives along the way.

  • Hernando de Soto explores Florida and muuch of the present-day southeastern United States with the aid of free and enslaved Africans
    Jan 1, 1539

    Hernando de Soto explores Florida and muuch of the present-day southeastern United States with the aid of free and enslaved Africans

  • St Augustine, the oldest permanent city in the USA, established by Spain. It is home to over 600 people, including 50 African slaves. Some of these slaves immediately escape into the surrounding wilderness.
    Jan 1, 1565

    St Augustine, the oldest permanent city in the USA, established by Spain. It is home to over 600 people, including 50 African slaves. Some of these slaves immediately escape into the surrounding wilderness.

  • Spanish government in Florida grants freedom to all runaway slaves from English colonies to the North if slaves agree to convert to Roman Catholicism.

    Spanish government in Florida grants freedom to all runaway slaves from English colonies to the North if slaves agree to convert to Roman Catholicism.

  • Hundreds of slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas escape to Florida as a result of Spanish government's decision.

    this event happened between 1683 and 1738

  • Franciso Menendez, an escaped slave from the Carolinas agrees to help defend Florida from the British in exchange for freedom. Establishes Fort Mose, the first free black settlement in the present-day USA, two miles north of St. Augustine

  • English invaders capture Fort Mose; blacks and spaniards recapture it a few

  • Spain trades Florida to England in exchange for Havana, Cube, which Spain had lost during the Seven Year's War; as a result, large rice and indigo plantations pop up along the St. John's river in East Florida; thousands of sklaves are imported from Africa

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