Sunday, May 10, 2015

Black Conquistadors



“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

Contrary to history books, the European conquerors of  the Americans were not all white.  Some were brown skin and even black.

Case in point is Juan Garrido.  Fortunately we know of him first hand.   From his own letter to the Spanish Crown outlying 30 years of service in an effort to qualify for a well earned pension.

Juan Garrido

1 comment:

  1. It would be interesting to see the geographical concentrations conquistadors came from. It sounds as if the crew would primarily be coming from the Mediterranean. I searched it up and it looks like the Ottoman Empire was quite extensive then. I wonder if there were any Ottoman or Chinese invasion forces.

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