Africans arrived in America early in the late th century, practically to the food of Colombian hosts.
Juan Garrido was conqueror of Mexico. He had lived in Lisbon, where he converted to Christianity, crossing the Atlantic early in the XVI and enrolling in various Caribbean campaigns. He was in the conquest of Cuba with Diego Velazquez as well as the expeditions of Ponce de León through the West Indies and Florida. He would embark with Cortes and starred in the conquest of Tlaxcala and the siege of Tenochtitlán. His adventurous life, however, ended and we found him as a farmer in Coyoacán, the Mexican tradition gives him the first to grow wheat in America.
Juan Valiente was conqueror of Chile. He came from today's Senegal and was sold as a slave by Portuguese. Coming to Mexico in 1530, being purchased by a Spanish named Alonso Valiente. He convinced his master to let him enlist as a conqueror for four years, with whose earnings he would pay his freedom. Thus, he arrived in Guatemala to join the expedition heading to Peru. Juan Valiente helped to found Santiago de Chile; in 1541 he negotiated his manumission through a grandson of his master who traveled from Mexico. In 1546 he participated in the Battle of Quilacura, being awarded by Valdivia with the position of captain. In 1553 he died at the Battle of Tucapel.
In Chile there is also Juan Beltran, another conqueror black In Peru we have the extreme mulato Juan Garcia in the host of Pizarro, the Sevillan mulato Miguel Ruiz, who had already stood out in Nicaragua and would cross until he conquered the Tahuantinsuyo, standing out in Cajamarca. Panama and Honduras appeared Juan Bardales; as a Yucatán explorer to Sebastian Toral, and the conquest of New Granada appears the mulato Pedro de Lerma.
We know of the presence of black free on the Peruvian coast, especially in the Chincha and Ica area. The existence of free black villages is in Spanish America from Esmeraldas (Ecuador) in the black th century to Fort Mosé in Florida in the black rd century; Mosé is now remembered as a sanctuary of freedom for the black fleeing British ..
Author: Antonio Moreno Ruiz.
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