He came to America as a slave. This Moroccan man later became one of North America's earliest explorers

Long before English colonists ever set foot in North America, an enslaved man born in Morocco had already walked thousands of miles across it, surviving shipwrecks, years of captivity and a journey that took him through present-day Florida, Texas and deep into the Southwest. His name was Estevanico, and his story is one of the earliest and least known chapters of American history.

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