During one of these conflicts, Estevanico was captured and sold as a slave in Spain. The Spanish often referred to him as"Estevanico the Black." Estevanico may well have been descended in part from black Africans, since for many years the Arabs and Berbers (native Caucasian people of North Africa) had contact with blacks who lived south of the Sahara Desert. Estevanico came into the possession of Andrés Dorantes de Carranca, a Spanish nobleman. Taking Estevanico as his servant, Carranca joined the expedition to North America led by Spanish explorer Pánfilo de Narváez. Another Spaniard, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who would later become one of the most famous explorers of North America, also took part in this voyage.
Goes to North America
In April 1528, the Spanish ships landed on the Florida coast. Disregarding the advice of his captains, Narváez abandoned the ships and marched into Florida on May 1 in search of gold. According to the report that Cabeza de Vaca made after his return to Spain, Narváez's expedition was attacked by Native Americans near the site of present-day Tallahassee, Florida. The Spaniards went to a bay on the Gulf of Mexico and constructed five boats, with which they hoped to travel along the coastline to a Spanish outpost in Mexico.
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