Letters from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1528) describe Gulf Coast tribes in Texas as ‘negroes, large and of good stature.’ Bartolomé de Las Casas (1552) wrote that the first people Columbus met were ‘as dark as those of Guinea.’ Spanish governors later recorded baptizing morenos indios — dark Indians — long before the term ‘African-American’ was ever coined. The receipts were written in Spanish centuries before the rewrite in English. #EarlyIberianReceipts #TruthByZamari #ZamariSpeaks #HiddenHi

Célebres náufragos de la narrativa con Isabel Cadenas Cañón

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