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African explorer

Estevanico (c. 1500–1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America.

He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado.

A journey that would firmly establish Esteban as the first Black Texan, and as the first African American.

Estevanico was a member of the Panfilo de Narvaez man Spanish expedition which arrived in April near present-day Tampa Bay, Fla.

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estebán, a Moorish slave who was the first black man known to have entered Florida—reached Culiacán, Mexico, in

Estevanico was assuredly the first African to traverse Texas.

History.” Estevanico, also known as Esteban the Moor, or Mustapha Ezzemouri, was an African explorer and adventurer whose exploits during.

Little is known about Estevanico's background but contemporary accounts described him as a "negro alárabe" or "Arabic-speaking black man" native to Azemmour, Morocco. In 1522, he was sold as a slave to the Spanish nobleman Andrés Dorantes de Carranza in the Portuguese-controlled Moroccan town of Azemmour.

Starting in 1528 he participated in the Narváez expedition, which set out from Cuba under the leadership of Pánfilo de Narváez to explore and colonize Spanish Florida. After numerous challenges, including shipwrecks and enslavement by Native Americans, Estevanico, along with three other survivor