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Juan Garrido, The African Conqueror - A Life of Adventure

Did you know that an African soldier fought alongside Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico? 🗡️🛡️ Meet Juan Garrido, the free man who planted the first wheat in the Americas 🌾🇲🇽 and left his mark on Hispanic history. From Africa to Tenochtitlán, his life was an epic of action, faith, and conquest. ⚔️✨ 🔍 In this video, we explore: ✅ His role in the Noche Triste and the fall of the Mexica Empire 💀🔥 ✅ How he planted the first wheat seeds in the New World 🌱🌎 ✅ His letter to King Charles I 📜👑 claiming his place in history Don't miss this fascinating forgotten story! 🎥🔥 The images of the city of Tenochtitlan were taken by Thomas Kole, whose work can be seen at https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/ #history #hispanichistory #conquest #spain #mexico Become a member of this channel to enjoy benefits:    / @historiahispana   Bibliography: 1. General Archive of the Indies (Seville) In the Mexico section, file 98, no. 10, appears a Petition of Merit that Juan Garrido addressed to King Charles I in 1538. It is the most solid and direct document about his life, written by himself. You can consult it in digital form at PARES (Portal of Spanish Archives): https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es 2. Matthew Restall – Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America Published in The Americas, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Oct., 2000), pp. 171–205. A fundamental article. Restall argues that Garrido was one of the first Africans to participate as a free, not enslaved, soldier in the conquest of the Americas. 3. Paulina Alberto & Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (eds.) – Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000 Publishes a very solid chapter on Africans in the Americas, including a specific section on Juan Garrido. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016. 4. Ricardo Alegría – Juan Garrido: The First Black Man in the Americas (Essay) Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation (Puerto Rico). A short but essential text. Alegría was one of the first to highlight his figure in Spanish American historiography. 5. Peter Gerhard – The North Frontier of New Spain Although more focused on geography and viceregal administration, he also mentions Garrido in frontier contexts of early Mexico. Princeton University Press, 1982. 6. Frank Moya Pons – History of the Spanish-Speaking Peoples of the Caribbean Includes mentions of Garrido in the context of the first African settlements in Hispaniola and the participation of free Africans in the first colonial campaigns. Very useful for contextualizing his arrival in the Caribbean (circa 1502). 7. Maria Elena Martínez – Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico. University Press of California, 2008. 8. Ben Vinson III – Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico Cambridge University Press, 2018. This book is key to understanding racial identity in New Spain and how figures like Garrido were perceived and classified. 9. Paul Lovejoy – Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Garrido is briefly mentioned as one of the free Africans who crossed into the New World, which places him within a broader framework of African mobility. 10. José Luciano Franco – Los negros en la historia de Cuba Editorial Ciencias Sociales, Havana, 1976. Franco was a Cuban historian and expert on slavery and the African presence in the Americas. He mentions Garrido in connection with Velázquez's early expeditions to Cuba. 11. Carlos Martínez Shaw – People of African Descent in Spanish Colonial America (chapter in a collective work) In: The Other History of America, edited by Pilar García Jordán. Includes Garrido as an example of the active participation of people of African descent in the conquest campaigns as free men. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The images have been generated using AI; clothing, uniforms, weapons, and buildings are not 100% accurate to the period.