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The Exploration to La Florida

By khunt21
  • Jan 1, 1501

    African Slaves

    Spanish settlers bring African slaves to the New World.
  • Jan 1, 1513

    Exploration of La Florida

    Free Africans Juan Garrido and Juan Gonzalez de Leon accompany Juan Ponce De Leon in his exploration of La Florida.
  • Jan 1, 1526

    First Enslaved Africans

    First enslaved Afircans brought to North America by Lucas Vazquez de Allyon expedition; established settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in present-day Georgia; this is the first European settlement in the geographic United States.
  • Jan 1, 1528

    Panfilo Narvaez

    Panfilo Naraez attempts to settle area near present day Tampa Bay with 600 people, including slaves. Lack of supplies and hurricanes doom venture.
  • Jan 1, 1536

    Tampa Bay

    Four survivors of the doomed Tampa Bay settlement end up in mexico and the Pacific Ocean after walking through wilderness for eight years.Estevanico, and African slave, ensures their survival by learning to communicate with natives along the way.
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Hernando de Santo

    Hernando de Santo explores Florida and much of the present-day southeastern United States with the aid of free and enslaved Africans.
  • Jan 1, 1565

    St. Agustine

    St. Agustine, the oldest permanent city in the USA, established by Spain. it is home to over 600 people, including 50 African slaves. Some of these slaves immediately escape into the surrounding wilderness.

  • Spanish Government

    Spanish government in Florida grants freedom to all runaway slaves from English colonies to the north if slaves agree to convert Roman Catholicism.

  • 1683-1738

    Hundreds of slaves from English plantations and the south escape to Florida as a result of Spanish government's decision.

  • Francisco Menendez

    Francisco Menendez, an escaped slave from the carolinas, agrees to help Florida from the British in exchange for freedom. Establishes Fort Mose, the first free black settlement in the present-day USA, two miles north of St. Augustine.

  • Fort Mose Captured

    English invaders capture Fort Mose; blacks ans Spaniards recapture it a few

  • Florida's Traded

    Spain trades Florida to English in exchange for Havana, Cuba, which Spain had lost during the Seven Year's War; as a result, large rice and indigo plantations pop up the St. John's River in East Florida; thousands of slaves are imported from Africa brought south from other colonies.