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spanish settlers bring african slaves to the new world
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Free African juan garido andjuan gonzalez de leon accompany poen de leonin his explaration of la florida.
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first enslaved africans brought to north america by lucas Vazquez de allyon expedition;established settlement of san miguel de gualdape in present georiga ;this is the first eurpean settlement. In the geographic united states .
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Four survivors of the doomed tampa bay settlement end up in mexico city after walking through wilderness for eirht years. Estevanico an African slave, ensures their survival by learning to communicate with natives along the way.
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Hernandez soto explores florida and much of the present-day southeastern united states with the aid of free and enslaved africans.
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st augustine, the oldest permanent city in the USA, established by spain. It is home to over 600 people, including 50 Africans Slaves. Some of these slaves immediately escapes into the surrouding wilderness.
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Spanish government in florida grants freedom to all runaway slaves from english colonies to the north if slaves agree to convert to Roman catholicism.
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Hundreds of slaves from Georiga and the Carolinas escape to Florida as a result of Spanish government's decision
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Fancisco Menendez, an escaped slave from the carolinas, agree to help defend Florida from the Brirish in exchange for freedom. Establishes fort mose, the first free black settlement in the present-day USA, two miles north of St Augustine.
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English invaders capture fort mose; blacks an spaniards recapture it a few
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Spain trades florida to England in exchange for havana, cuba which spain had lost during the Seven years's war; as a result, large rice and indigo plantations op up along the St. john River in East Florida; thousands of slaves are imported from africa or brought south from other colonies.