A Freed Slave Described America in a Seville Barbershop
Age of Exploration

A Freed Slave Described America in a Seville Barbershop

A freed slave walked into a Seville barbershop and became the first person to describe the New World to ordinary Europeans—years before any printing press could catch up.

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Age of ExplorationColonial AmericasSpainAtlantic WorldSlaveryIndigenous Contact15th CenturyOral HistoryChristopher ColumbusCaribbean

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