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Cabeza De Vaca and Esteban

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Informations and facts about Cabeza and Esteban.

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CABEZA DE VACA'S JOURNEY

  • Cabeza de vaca was a spanish explorer who sailed North America.
  • He was shipwrecked in Texas.
  • He explored the southwest and came from Spain.
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CABEZA AND ESTEBAN

  • Cabeza had a friend named Esteban.
  • They were both shipwrecked in Texas.
  • The karankawas took them and slayed them.
  • Cabeza and estabean lived with the karankawas for 7 years.
  • Cabeza and Estabean later escaped.
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CABEZA DE VACA FACTS

  • His parents died while he was young.
  • He lived with his Aunt and Uncle.
  • In 1527, he embarked with six hundred other men.
  • Cabeza de Vaca was born at Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia , Spain.
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CABEZA DE VACA'S EXPEDITION

  • Cabeza de Vaca left Spain for the Americas in June 1527.
  • Landed near present-day Tampa Bay, Florida with his large army of soldiers.
  • Built boats, and sailed along the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
  • Later on, three of his boats were lost.
  • They landed finally at a place they named the Island of Misfortune.
5.

KARANKAWAS

  • From 1529 to 1534, Cabeza de Vaca and these others lived with the karankawas.
  • The karankawas took him as a semi-slave.
  • In 1534, Cabeze de vaca and four others escaped.
  • They started west across Texas and Mexico.
  • In April 1536, a Spanish slaving party found the four Spaniards.
6.

ESTEBAN

  • Was born in Morroco
  • He was the first known black man born in Africa to bave arrived in the present-day continental U.S.
  • He was enslaved as a youth by the Portuguese, he was sold to a Spanish nobleman in 1527.
  • In 1520 was purchased as a personal slave by Andres Dorantes de Carranza.
  • Andres Dorsntes De Carranza decided to go on Cabeza's expedition.
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FUN FACTS

  • Esteban is also known as Estavanico.
  • Cabeza De Vaca means "head of a cow".
  • In 1540, Cabeza de Vaca was appointed governor of the Spanish settlement on the Rio de la Plata.
  • In 1542, Cabeza was the first European to see Iguacu Falls.

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