Black Conquistadors: Africans In the Conquest Of The Americas

[@user-fp6qm7zd1h]

Hi, I'm an African Brazilian. Makes a video about Brazilian black heroes against slavery. Luiz Gama is one of my favorites. He was the son of a black woman and a white man. He was born free, but his father illegally sold him into slavery when he was 10 years old. He got his freedom, became a lawyer and freed 271 slaves

[@InnerCityRocker]

Wow.. This Is Incredible Information. As An Afro Dominicano.. Thank You For Sharing Such Inspirational Wordz

[@Kikongolessons]

Thanks for sharing.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

That is a cool bot of history, it's a shame Brazilian history is under rated.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

@KniteDragonX I don't have the knowledge nor skill to do it justice. I am willing to subscribe to any channels that do. All history is priceless.

[@inesm.779]

Would the blk community in Brazil be interested in diaries in Portugese that teach about African and black inventors or about Africa in general?

[@jaimendaniel5578]

Juan Garrido is remarkable for having been the first man ever to grow wheat in the Americas. That alone is worth mentioning more so than his military prowess. Estevanico (little Stephen) is another Black Spanish who proved to be uniquely skilled in communicating with the natives in the South West. In general, the status of Blacks in the Spanish Empire was way better than in other European societies in the New World. See Fort Mosé in Florida, for example.

[@LIONHEADEDDEITY6080]

I didn't know about Conquistadors of African Ancestry, but it makes sense that other groups would want to use us for their teams, but get mad when we play for our own team. Thanks for sharing and putting what can be a sensitive topic in its proper historical context.

[@kafrifa2001]

This is it!

[@samg2590]

🤣 backwards 💯

[@m.worthy]

Iberian conquistadors used Africans and indigenous Amerindians in their European conquest of the Americas. Nothing new. Europeans did the same when they used opposing African peoples and tribes against other Africans during Europeans "scrambles for Africa". The unfortunare and misleading thing about this video content is that it points to a few Africans with fates different from those at the more extreme end of enslaved Africans in the Americas and it essentially romanticizes (literally & figuritively) a few outliers as if they were representative of a greater whole. The semantics and hyperbole are misleading. La India Catalina accompanied Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia as his expeditions explored and subjugated areas which are now Colombia. Would it be correct to designate every native Amerindian who assisted Iberians as a Iberian conquistador who'd benefit in the manner of such actual conquistadors who were Spanish citizens colonizing and conquering the New World? No. It is also just as disingenuous to point to instances of a number of Africans who served conquistadors and in a multitude of capacities, and present said Africans as if they were all free men or somehow representative of a major grouping of "Black Conquistators" who'd benefit from Iberian colonization of the Americas in the same manner as actual Portuguese or Spanish conquistadors. There are always outliers, but this video absolutely misrepresents and romanticizes.

[@st3019]

Africa is a continenet my friend not a state or a nation . Africa is the most diverse continent in the world . Europe is much more homogenous than Africa .When we seperate the world in “ we “ and “them” we make a big mistake . Now I know that european colonisers when they colonized Africa they saw african nations as one but that doesn’t mean that they are.Europeans have seen the same with asians but do you believe that indians or pakistani poeple are the same race as japanese? North Africa has never been seen as the same as other parts of Africa even by europeans.The fact the reality is far far more complex is very important . And the idea that africans were diivided for me is nonsense bc all racial geoups in the world have been and are divided. European colonizers during colonial era have been constantly fighting agains each other as well . Spaniards agains french and later english , french agains english , english agains french and dutch and everyone else . This history continued until ww2.All racial groups have been divided.

[@simonwright6573]

@bulu uluil moors never ruled a large part of Europe , only a small part ,and were quick to sellout our people

[@VivaPR21]

Juan Garrido stepped foot in what is today the Dominican Republic in 1502 and then Puerto Rico. After, he went to Mexico and helped colonize it. He actually stayed in Mexico and died there. There’s a park in Mexico City named after him.

[@mrnancy1114]

Just wrote pretty much the same before seeing your comment, but yeah this fact was world changing.

[@bonybb14]

Que interesante?🤔 I had no idea.

[@abdullahdawudbryant6871]

Interesting

[@benzshotta4267]

He was originally from Kongo and is the first recorded person to plant wheat in the Americas

[@importantcomment3246]

Yes we will change the name We ain't gonna have parks named after thieves

[@oscarfajardo5323]

Also the first black Doctor in theology and philosophy was Spanish in the Salamanca University.

[@ashtonfranklin4620]

I can believe there were black conquistadors because when Herman Cortez was going to Mexico (Aztec Nation) it's said that he took people of African decent with him along with ships, weapons, and maps

[@m.f.hopkins8728]

Estevanico - a Black conquistador - was part of Cabeza de Vaca's exploration team, and they traveled throughout what is now the present-day US southwest. There is a pretty good book about the exploration, titled 'Castaways', in addition to a Mexican-produced movie 'Cabeza de Vaca'.

[@moshenewsletter4620]

@George Ybarra you are 1000% correct, Siberian Asians that now currently live in Mexico are not indigenous people.

[@MR-dp2zs]

@George Ybarra I have a couple of questions for ya since you're saying that Aztecs, Mayans, Zapotec, Toltec, etc etc were all Black. If they were then wouldn't they have had some kind of immune to what took 90% of them out? I mean Africans weren't taken out by small pox, right? And I would think like all the other foreigners that came here and set up shop wouldn't they have too? Instead of just show the natives a couple of their trades and return home?

[@leonhenry4861]

Racism only began about 400 years ago. Other empires never adopted it. It was the Europeans and Americans that made it a global franchise.

[@faxxx8230]

@@moshenewsletter4620 you’re slow af, they’re native not Siberian or African. Dark skin does not mean they’re African. Also they ranged in tones. You claim y’all are the real natives yet y’all don’t know any of the traditions, the foods, stories, languages, knowledge, everything...we still have it, why don’t y’all?? Y’all really think another race is gonna waste their time leading hundreds of years of history just to be imposters ? Gtf

[@d.t.5400]

Amazing video brother!! I have known about the Black Conquistadors and Navigators for awhile now. Much respect on educating the masses.. We Black men have fought and helped conquer going back to Antiquity. It's sad how some think the Black experience started with slaves transported from Africa to the New World. While the stories can be painful to hear they prove that African men did alot more than run around the bush half naked. I'm looking forward to more of your videos. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@mrnancy1114]

Juan de Garrido or handsome Juan travelled to Spain on his own dime or attached himself as an apprentice directly from the Kingdom of Kongo, note at the relationship at the time with Portugal Handsome Juan was the first to plant wheat in the Americas, which became a key staple in our diet , this fact alone was world changing. But yeah I agree their willing participation in the conquest of the so-called new world especially as non enslaved men, is indeed unsettling. However true history anywhere is always complex and contradictory, why should the history of Black Ppl be any different.

[@mrnancy1114]

@Jakobi St. Kashius I would be interested to find a source on that.

[@mrnancy1114]

@@abdurrahmanqureshi3030 Your rudeness aside. *Garrido is a Spanish surname, meaning "elegant* And he was self named , look into things before commenting and looking like an ass.

[@onemanwithin]

@@mrnancy1114 Corn was the staple in Latin America not wheat.

[@MR-dp2zs]

Just reading these comments, so this Juan de Garrido is from the Congo in Africa, yet he walking around with a Spanish first and last name? How TF that happened? Must of not liked his African roots? JS

[@mrnancy1114]

@@MR-dp2zs Well you have to consider that at the time, Christianity became *”the state religion “* of the Kingdom of Kongo, not forced or caroused out of fear , but by choice, many of it’s nobles and wealthy citizens, travelled to the Vatican and Spain to seek out Capuchin Monks to administer rites, they over time took over much of these functions, so adapting Latin based names were not uncommon, not so different from Africans in Islamic states and empires, hence the names of most of their kings and statesman following this period. recommend the book *A Fist Full Of Shells* Amazon kindle have it.

[@alejandrabecerra1371]

This history is such a trip. I traced my family records back to the founding of the state in Mexico that we live in and many were recorded as "mulatos libres". Thanks for sharing all this info.

[@mjs6157]

The Moors, controlled parts of southern europe for centuries. "Iberia" is now spain and Portugal, was part of the Moorish empire.

[@bear1more287]

Also parts of Italy..

[@exclusivegaming3.086]

@Eric Rodriguez lmao white moors, what a joke

[@intlvoiceofreason9239]

@Eric Rodriguez those never existed...

[@Runitup84]

@Eric Rodriguez lol

[@anubis8918]

And they became traitors of African people

[@deumevet]

there were black nurses like beatriz de palacios. black women also played a role in the conquest of the americas.

[@veterannavy304]

This is like brothers volunteering for Nam. We had no business in that white man war but they went over there anyway not all was drafted.

[@blkazn77]

Many were forced. My father was given the choice of prison or army.

[@veterannavy304]

@@blkazn77 yes I understand that ,I mentioned "some volunteer" not all. Sorry to hear about your dad

[@mhvisionzz9690]

@Cayenne Captain 💯💯💯

[@mhvisionzz9690]

If you don’t know your history you will get sucked in

[@protectedspirit7692]

Excellent point. Same holds true for Afghanistan. Can you imagine what the history will look like 200 years from now.

[@alexeisaular3470]

Hey latin american here, it is an old saying that the conquest were made by de indigenous and the independence by the spanish, you are trying to compare the english colonization equal to the hispanic colonization, the two process were totally different and just by that makes your content really suspicious

[@rubencuadros7174]

Por fin uno que sabe. Quieren extrapolar sus problemas raciales a los demás.

[@daheneral1459]

@@rubencuadros7174yet you are here watching 🤣

[@jameelm8891]

This topic is a significant hole in historical records and understanding, which I agreed must be researched and documented more. Opportunist have always played a part in history and is just another fascinating puzzle piece to the historical records. Love the content Hometeam!

[@jswmoorishtempleofamen-ra2807]

Thank you for a complete overview of this. My military science research of Florida led me to Puerto Rico, Kuba, Haiti Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) and South American from my start in Fort St. Augustine. Spot on with the resistance movement and Maroon societies created. The Moors who are so called Black Conquistadors were those who were renamed in part to Moriscos for their converting to Christianity. Being a Moor was view as a political-religious dichotomous way of life against Christianity as noted by Alphonso X of Castile.

[@InnerCityRocker]

Almost the same situation for black slaves who were forced to fight against the Indigenous natives here in the States and Mexico. Some of them who lived in the north states were offered freedom. Some of those same slaves still didn't really get that freedom either.

[@leonhenry4861]

Yeah nobody got there 40 acres and a mule.

[@matthewmann8969]

Not forced but blackmailed yeah

[@InnerCityRocker]

@@matthewmann8969 And Forced... I stand correct!

[@Matamawan_Sicarii]

Keep learning my friend I like when brothers have their eyes open to history they did not know of my mom started teaching me these things early in my life love to see you giving the knowledge

[@BlacklightRevelationsII]

The difference between a system of illegitimacy and a system of truth and justice is acknowledging unfavorable aspects of history and changing it. Not the illegitimate practice of making it illegal to talk about because it hurts our butts. Great content as usual. 💯

[@stefferinoz3987]

Human history is always deep and intricate and never shallow and simple especially Africans who have the longest history

[@glentodd5017]

Not by a long shot THERE IS Pyramids in America older than in your African land HAAA ALL U AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE THE DOWN FALL OF THE GARDENS OF EDEN TRADERS AN NOW LOOK TOOK YO SHIT TO

[@ekala9811]

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[@B.White70]

@@glentodd5017 how do you know that they didn't build those to? You do know that they were here before Columbus was right? In his journal read what the natives said about the dark ones with the golden tip spears.... I'd guesstimate somewhere in Florida. As it seems that's there's a long history there. Bet that you still think that Jesus was white huh? Though some churches are slowly either admitting truth. Or using a form of CRT in the explanation of their histories. 🤣😂

[@kingtaylor201]

*americans

[@kingtaylor201]

@@glentodd5017 lmfao I'm glad you're hip

[@lashayaddams]

As a human being I say the future is bright because strong warriors focusing on the positive instead of the negative. That's how things get better

[@juansanchez5001]

Conquistadors and Militiamen. ... Juan Garrido is one example of a black conquistador who accompanied Ponce de Leon on his Caribbean expeditions as well as Hernan Cortes in Mexico. Garrido, born in West Africa, participated in the conquests of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guadalupe, Dominica and Florida.

[@marcusbrown307]

Careful saying “Berber controlled Africans” there are millions of Berber-AmaZigh that are brown in complexion just like Saharan and subsaharan african peoples, and those that helped colonize much of South America were of Berber-Morisco-Mozarabic origin. Those “black conquistadors” were given the option to remain captives of war and be exiled as many were off the coasts of Senegal, Western Sahara, São Tomé, and Angola, or fight for the Portuguese.

[@funzeumchannel6630]

facts

[@st3019]

Berber- amazigh people are not considered black. I know there are some berbers who look almost totally like subsaharan africans due to interbreeding but amazigh and berbers of North Africa are not considered racially black

[@marcusbrown307]

@@st3019 Yeah that’s a sensitive issue with some North Africans from Morocco to Egypt and even some horn Africans. My Egyptian friends although they are brown in complexion don’t consider themselves European or white, but there are some who do. The geopolitical aspect of race in Africa is twisted by antiquated eurocentric rules that has no current benefit. For North Africans (my paternal family is Izenagan/Mozabite from Adrar btw) you’re technically African but not subsaharan so are considered “white”. Now Amazigh are not Arabs either but get classed as “white” just like Arabs while Arabs are middle eastern/west Asian and neither people are of the continental European land mass but are “white” because they aren’t “black subsaharan”. Meanwhile the Amazigh people range from very dark like the Taureg and Tebu people to very light like modern Masmuda and Chleuh. Black and white are outdated constructs and bring a sense of superficial superiority to those who use the term and are not of the European peoples who invented the terms.

[@st3019]

@@marcusbrown307 It’s really annoying when anytime someone talks about classification of races done in recent years, they always have to bring ” Eurocentric “ rules .I’m case you don’t know, races aren’t defined just by their skin color. So being “ white “ vs being “ nonwhite” is totally nonsense. The supposed “ Caucasus mountains “ origin of white people has been debunked by science since in 1970.However, even according to “Eurocentric” rules , North Africans and Middle Easterns are not considered white, like white Europeans.We say they are not black but nobody consider themselves white Europeans.Europeans see some similarities with middle easterns , Iranians, North Indians etc but they don’t consider themselves as “ white Europeans “ . Now , you with your logic , tell me why are , according to “Afrocentric “ rules north africans the same race with people of subsaharan Africa? Or why aren’t Iranians and turks not the same race with europeans? Today , anthropology is debunking and also confirming what was right and wrong about concepts of race . You don’t want the term “ black “ ? Ok, you can say afrocoid or whatever. Stop switching any conversation about science issues to moral issues . Show me the facts.

[@marcusbrown307]

@@st3019 Whoa calm down cowboy. I know all this already. You just reiterated the same thing I typed. I know middle easterners and North Africans aren’t considered white like Europeans, but according to the European construct of race, which is were it has its roots of classifying people by skin color by late 19th century standards invented by a European scientist. There’s nothing debating the “Eurocentric” thought process about it if it’s based on European thought, it’s European😂. And if you’re North African you’re African on the African continental tectonic plate. Now I’m not arguing anything that’s a fact. All I’m saying is geopolitical classifications of race is sensitive in North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, as you just proved. There’s an Egyptian born American professor that refused to be considered “white” upon arrival in America due to him being African and brown skin. His argument was why should be he considered white just because he’s North African/Egyptian. There was no vote on it everyone agreed with. It is a geopolitical classification of race based on what? Nothing that is beneficial today.

[@WaliJamalBey]

Get the book "Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples" by Jack D. Forbes

[@nhnj7543]

No

[@momodoudiabira9737]

@@nhnj7543 why No?

[@nhnj7543]

@@momodoudiabira9737 because none of that is true in real life. Yes I’ve read the book and it’s filled with lies

[@Runitup84]

@@nhnj7543 what does it say in the book?

[@cecemantis2154]

Africans are not the same people as the black indigenous cooper colored Indians in the Americans , Ham/ Cham was cursed, the creator blessed Shem

[@jeremychatmon8512]

Love what you do bro!! Been a fan for years now. Keep educating the people.

[@kerelasfinest4496]

Stfu

[@jeremychatmon8512]

@@kerelasfinest4496 make me

[@kerelasfinest4496]

@@jeremychatmon8512 be satisfied with the enclosed parameters of your ancestors culture and stay in the present

[@jeremychatmon8512]

What makes you think I'd take any advice from you?? The "closed parameters" of my ancestors culture encompasses the entirety of human existence. My advice to you: seek wisdom.

[@secredeath]

@kerelasfinest4496 yup natives are brown not black. Inca frozen body has been found she anit black

[@ilovelife3328]

Fascinating history! A lot of people don't realize that many Africans were living in Spain and Portugal right before the "discovery" of the New World and those same Africans were sailing over here with Columbus (and before him too)! We have a famous African Iberian historical figure in my state by the name of Matthew DeSouza who lived and worked as an indentured servant in MD during the early 1600s.

[@tratney]

Yeah as jews

[@josephperkins4080]

Bull

[@josephperkins4080]

@@dreamdiction true

[@tylerrobbins8311]

Many is subjective, facts remain Africans had very little presence in Iberia after the reconquesta. More so in Spain than Portugal as Spain was ethnocentric during and a few centuries after the reconquesta. Were there blacks yes, but the majority of blacks were mercenaries and hired militants. The reason blacks were sought is due to it being tropical and them not suffering losses to attrition as much.

[@ilovelife3328]

@Juan Lorenzo De Valnegre I’m not sure if you are familiar with Abubakari II but he also has a fascinating history as a ruler of Mali. He was supposed to have sailed to the US in 1311 and the Spanish Conquistadors actually found a metal alloy being used by the Tainos that came from West Africa (used for weapons in the West African Empires). The same name for the alloy was used in both locations - Guanin. This is written about in one of their diary logs.

[@Warriorofchrist8790]

what's good home team aint watched you in a while

[@hermes5456]

Los negros siempre vivieron mejor en la america hispana, aquí siempre han sido personas y en estados unidos no.

[@artofdissonance4091]

Con mas identidad y sin conflictos interiores. Pero materialmente...no creo .

[@crustymcgee6580]

Wow, this was an eye opener. I had no idea.

[@guardiancologne9034]

We werent all slaves or stolen from our home.

[@josephperkins4080]

@@guardiancologne9034 ok where waa your home

[@historyshortened]

History is such a good subject. We cover such episodes all the time

[@iliyano567]

I swear you have one of the if not the best Black History channel.

[@kamilleking4708]

But that's the thing, it's good to learn about our history, the good, the bad, the evil.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

I agree.

[@uptown_rider8078]

But this isn’t your history. Blacks weren’t conquistadors, the Spanish were.

[@wussrestbrook1200]

@@uptown_rider8078 they’ll take the breadcrumbs then

[@uptown_rider8078]

@@jkarma3356 That’s just how it goes with these people. They’ll make up lies, and try to make everything about them

[@uptown_rider8078]

@@jkarma3356 No, it’s not. It’s just more attempts at blackwashing history

[@alexanderguerrero1395]

First. Lovin' your videos.

[@admirekashiri9879]

Interesting but, men this is actually a huge shame. Why did they always allow themselves to be used to fight other people's fights? I really don't understand. They let the Arabs and brown Amazigh use them in the Iberian Peninsula, they let the Arabs use them in Egypt all while castrating them yet they were loyal why?

[@admirekashiri9879]

@Juan Lorenzo De Valnegre I know still kind of sad but I guess it is what it is.

[@medwards810]

@Jason Diggs my god are you wrong white men were castrated way before blacks read your history especially the Barbary slave trade where blacks were the pirates and sometimes the sultans there were white slave armies as well and castrated men who guarded the harems too, blacks came to be enslaved way later especially after the Marmlukes uprising under the Turks who rebelled than ruled Egypt for a time all of this is under Islamic imperialism and colonialism. After the whites rebelled against the Turks they no longer sought white men they went after the poor tribes and scattered people in africa

[@matthewmann8969]

@Jason Diggs Blacks were not the only people castrated, sterilized, mutilated, and decapitated in The Middle East And North Africa Europeans and other people like from The Indian Subcontinent were also given that fate and where dehumanized

[@matthewmann8969]

@Jason Diggs Yeah they were

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

@Jason Diggs Balkan Christians 😭😭

[@ChrisBeenRaw]

I’m still waiting for an explanation on Estevan from the Cortez expedition. There not much information on how he survived by being adopted by natives and his trip to the 7 cities of cibolo.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

[@kemitubey5070]

Peace Noble brother, I am Kemitu Bey, and those Moors were subjects to Spain after being Conquered, Stanley Lane Poole did address the fact that Moors were being torched by king Philip 1567, Moors were in fact had to dress up as Spaniards, behavior was to be Spanish as a punishment, so I can see how Moors became Conquerors for the Spanish crown in the New World

[@enriquevisiedo2750]

Crees que con disfrazarse era suficiente? A América no viajo ningún moro al menos en el primer siglo , ni siquiera se les permite viajar a los aragoneses , tenías que demostrar que eras castellano antiguo ( 7 generaciones) para que te dieran permiso de embarque

[@shaggythewriter8185]

The guy who founded Canada with the French was Mathiau DaCosta, a man who was born in Africa and became a world renowned navigator My friend shares his namesake 🙌

[@adamcohen2632]

There are many books, both academic oriented (Matthew Restall) and those oriented towards general readers that have even been best sellers that deal with Black Conquistadors. I highly suggest 1493 by Mann and Born in Blackness by French. They are both great books that are both highly entertaining and informative. It's not hidden history, but Eurocentric Historians from prior generations mostly ignored the subject matter, but for several decades now that has changed.

[@musongakati7922]

Been watching this channels for almost 2 years...but not much from East Africa 😭 I keep waiting for a video about the popular Bunyoro Kitara Empire. I will keep hoping

[@jahbless4ever]

Let him know

[@trulurecords]

This is a painful truth. It's time to get things right.

[@urbanwarrior3470]

what does that mean...?

[@jlopez4963]

@@urbanwarrior3470 Blacks are just as racist as whites

[@donbanks834]

@@jlopez4963and you possess not even a third of the intellect of neither the so called "black" & "white" man to even give that approach with such an ignorant mentality

[@kerelasfinest4496]

@@jlopez4963 they are getting a taste of power , let them. other races should realize their worth . Oh wait 😂😂😂

[@justamaninthisworld2742]

its not paInfUl tRuTh. Its just history as it happened

[@globalmarauder8682]

Estebanico is a good example of black North Africans conquistador s. he navigated the Mexican gulf in a relatively peaceful fashion earning the native's respect....part of his adventures are in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's book about that expedition.

[@SizzlesDiaries]

Wow this was a eye opener and very insightful

[@m.worthy]

🙄 Be careful with the "Black Conquistador" SEMANTICS and how the term is hyperbolically manipulated (relative to context) throughout this video. Sure there were Africans who served in enslaved capacities and assisted in New World campaigns alongside prototypical Iberian knights, soldiers, and explorers in regards to colonial expansion and militaristic onslaught, but the very semantics in the term "Black Conquistadors" is absolutely misleading (especially how it suggests significant quantity & roles by mentioning a few African outliers used by Iberians for colonial purposes). There were thousands of Iberian conquistadors responsible for subjugating inhabitants of the Caribbean, South America, and even areas of North America. Those conquistadors also had the support of their monarchy as well as Catholic popes. Just as those Iberian conquistadors utilized assistance from Africans, the Iberians also utilized indigenous Amerindians, playing them against other tribes. So we're calling native Americans who were used by the Spanish or Portuguese in colonial schemes "Indigenous Conquistadors" ? 🙄 If someone is going to try to give some misleading exaggerated examples of a relative handful of African exceptions to the rule (who were essentially used by colonial forces in capacities beyond field/plantation/domestic enslavement) the misleading may as well include all continental black African slave raiders who colluded with the Portuguese or Spanish slave traders. Those same black Africans who in the bigger picture indirectly supported European colonial conquest of the Americas are to be considered as "Conquistadors" too ? Their actions (catching Africans from opposing tribes and areas) indirectly supported Iberian footholds and the success of Iberian enslavement of Africans in the Americas. The context and semantics of the phrase "Black Conquistadors" are ridiculously hyperbolic & misleading. It is actually disgusting how the idea is even romanticized via drawings and the way in which much of the video content is disingenuously manipulated, worded, and presented.

[@starsbarsnigga]

@@m.worthy 🤣🤣🤣 you be careful 🤡 you’re everywhere posting this

[@MrArtVein]

@@m.worthy bro you trying to hard to look woke. You might wanna research some primary sources. While the term slave was often used, the term has changed quite a bit. American chattle slavery was undoubtedly more severe compared to African tribal slavery which was more like indentured servants who would eventually join the tribe as family, whereas Arab slavery was so harsh people where regularly being castrated like the Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire. In the example of Spanish/African slave conquistadors in the 1500s, one such as Juan Garrido was a leader. This man carried *A GUN* how many slaves do you know carried weapons around their torturers? Not only that but this man "retired" You can read his letter in the Library of Congress website with him saying he's worked a lot but wanted to settle down and have kids. They gave him some money and he stayed in South America to live out the rest of his life. Then there's people like Mansa Musa who was not a slave at all, this man was 100% an explorer on a conquest to expand his kingdom. Why do you think even Columbus was confused when he landed here 100s of years later? Cuz there were already black people here. Seminole literally means maroon skin. They were the darkest of the natives and situated closest to the Bahamas. Mali is only about 630 miles from South America which is about 1/5 of the distance between NYC and L.A. very doable. Make no mistake, Musa was conquesting TF out of that area.

[@SpaceSeedSpaceSeed]

Very, very good video to the 3rd power my brother, im very familiar with black conquistadors being used by Spain and Portugal. Infact being a Afro Puerto Rican the conquistador you spoke mostly about has a connection with Loiza Puerto Rico in fact if I'm not mistaken, he married the Taino Indian princess who this town is named after. This area PR has a strong African influence. You also showed a picture of the conquistador that accompanied Francisco Coronado I forgot his name it'll be good if you could do a video about him, once again I loved this video in the research you're doing my brother!😎

[@Twongola]

Pedro Alonzo Niño actually piloted the Santa Maria. Haha I make videos about this stuff too, one love though brotha. Easy thing to overlook. Keep up the good work 💯💯

[@KevinTyson]

I have heard that Francisco Vasquez de Coronado had an African assistant when he conquered the Zuni and that the Zuni still bear a grudge against black Americans as a result

[@smoothcriminal4038]

That’s interesting.🤔

[@QueenBees456]

Makes me a little sad that we participated in these atrocities.

[@KevinTyson]

@@QueenBees456 but who am us anyway?

[@jahbless4ever]

Sad

[@m.worthy]

Iberian conquistadors used Africans and indigenous Amerindians in their European conquest of the Americas. Nothing new. Europeans did the same when they used opposing African peoples and tribes against other Africans during Europeans "scrambles for Africa". The unfortunare and misleading thing about this video content is that it points to a few Africans with fates different from those at the more extreme end of enslaved Africans in the Americas and it essentially romanticizes (literally & figuritively) a few outliers as if they were representative of a greater whole. The semantics and hyperbole are misleading. La India Catalina accompanied Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia as his expeditions explored and subjugated areas which are now Colombia. Would it be correct to designate every native Amerindian who assisted Iberians as a Iberian conquistador who'd benefit in the manner of such actual conquistadors who were Spanish citizens colonizing and conquering the New World? No. It is also just as disingenuous to point to instances of a number of Africans who served conquistadors and in a multitude of capacities, and present said Africans as if they were all free men or somehow representative of a major grouping of "Black Conquistators" who'd benefit from Iberian colonization of the Americas in the same manner as actual Portuguese or Spanish conquistadors. There are always outliers, but this video absolutely misrepresents and romanticizes.

[@SatansSimgma]

Can't get enough of this channel. Ahhhhhhhmazin

[@dianek8089]

I thought you were about to talk about Abubakari II Mansa, King of Mali who went trading in 1311 in South America. There are tons of maps about his journey and representations of peaceful contacts with the Natives.

[@iam_dameechi]

Where can I find these sources

[@LB-fl5dh]

Tons of Maps where?

[@soda8736]

There is no proof of that. It was a fleet of ships from Mali empire but was never heard from again. No proof of it making it to the Americas.

[@ogwestfrelo]

@@soda8736 u should read "they came before Columbus" by Dr Ivan Van Sertima.

[@soda8736]

@@ogwestfrelo how is a book that came out in the 70's the only source?

[@postmeme44]

Theres a legendary Africans portuguese officer who defeated Islamic Turkish armies, the King of Portugal loved his courage. He ended marrying a conquered Turkish woman

[@WallyZamwa]

There is no good or bad history. Just history.

[@sokobu8736]

Thanks to Matthew Restall for Working on the Subject.

[@postmeme44]

Both the Portuguese and the Spanish armies were diverse, Native Iberians, Africans, Gypsies, Jews, Moors.

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*thank you for informing us about OUR BLACK TRUTH!! I just downloaded that app* ✌🏾❤️🤴🏾💪🏾✊🏾

[@michaelilori1776]

The book " Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions Henry B. Lovejoy" chronicles the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto taken enslaved from the "Yoruba" region of West Africa in the 18th century. He became a soldier in the Spanish colonial army and participated in military campaigns in Florida. I think he was also involved in putting down the Aponte rebellion in Cuba. The leader of that rebellion Jose Aponte, another man of Yoruba origin, had also previously served as an officer in the Spanish army. Another example: In the wake of the collapse of the Oyo empire, the son of Alafin Abiodun, the emperor, was enslaved and subsequently Abiodun's Brazilian born grandson, Cândido da Fonseca Galvão, served as an officer in the Brazilian army. The history of the Americas has always tended to downplay or dismiss African involvement in any event of notable significance in that part of the Atlantic. The reality is that Africans were heavily involved in many of the pivotal defining moments of history in that region. Here are a just few examples: One of the factors in the Seminole war was the concern over escaped slaves seeking refuge in Florida. Slave rebellions were a constant worry and occurred in EVERY single slave colony in the Americas/Caribbean. Francis Drake sought the assistance of African maroons in raiding Spanish loot in Panama in the 16th century. The Haitian revolution was a major factor forcing Napoleon into the Louisiana Purchase. Haiti supplied soldiers and weapons to Simon Bolivar in his war against the Spanish, in return he agreed to free slaves. When (no surprise!) Bolivar reneged on his promise Haiti invaded Gran Colombia to fight on behalf of the slaves. Then a proxy war ensued drawing in the US, Britain, France and Holland. The Jamaican "Baptist war" uprising contributed to the abolition of slavery by the British. In the 1763 treaty of paris, regions like Quebec were traded by france to Britain for the very small, but extremely lucrative, Caribbean islands of Martinique, St Lucia and Guadeloupe. Formal education, the world over, avoids these storylines, with hollywood stepping up to fill in the blanks! One of the problems is that the history of this region is reduced to the simplistic binary of helpless African slavery versus valiant european swashbuckling, pirates, buccaneers, cowboys and conquistadors. Anyway the great work done by channels like yours is exposing and fixing this imbalance! Bravo!

[@juanverhelst871]

Extremely interesting video. Never learnt of these facts before. Although as mentioned at the beginning of the video a complex history with complex repercussions.

[@BBR1992]

Soooo we just gonna ignore all of the " Swarthy " indentured servants brought into the US FROM the UK in the same time frame ..... interesting......

[@nofameamjollniir]

And those "Swarthy" who were already here and "wholey" made up the people who occupied this land before the spaniards arrived according multiple eyewitness accounts. Yes...very interesting.

[@Windycitykiid23]

I think this guy must read from a Script.

[@Reneekelley68]

But why are you blaming him? He’s focusing on the education of African which is sorely missed in schools! I’m sure what you’re saying also isn’t in any history books as well. The guy can’t be required to cover everything and every topic. If you have something to add, start your own channel and educate us. I’ll following it because I love history.

[@ortegadean]

Several problems with this narrative. The leyenda negra is everywhere. Spaniards did not engage in chattel slavery. Slavery was only allowed under Roman law as the spoil of war. There’s a theme of fighting when there was no army. They didn’t fit on the ships. How do you conquer without an army and who made up the army. Slaves in the Spanish world were better treated, could sue their owners for abuse, and could purchase their emancipation. The conquest of the Americas is much more complicated than merely killing adversaries. It’s actually a story of alliances and negotiation. Emancipated slaves even became professors in universities such as the university of Granada. Interesting how the theme of slavery plays so prominently in Spanish America, but a quick visit to Barbados, Bermuda, Bahamas and Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia and the visible black populations makes clear which European nations engaged in chattel slavery. (It wasn’t Spain.) This also ignores the fact that many indigenous people were conquistadors too such as Juan de oñate (who’s mother was indigenous and who’s wife was indigenous). It is normal for Spanish generals, officers and nobles to exaggerate their exploits and claim credit for the conquests. Remember in the Middle Ages, bravery and valor were valued more than peaceful means of gaining objectives. A closer look at Spain’s relationship to slavery will explain why slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas would flee to Spanish Florida and fort Moises (a freed black Spanish fort). But to do this you may have to few yourself from the leyenda negra and in the same sense as you can’t lump all Asians, all Africans or all Americans in one big group, you can’t lump Europeans together either. The British were the worst. You would never see an armed black man leading a group of other armed men under the British. Think about it.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

I knew a small bit important role? Possible as I doubt the Spanish would have been able to establish themselves as well if they had not had any. There is a reason European powers couldn't colonize successful until the 1800s dies in the tropics made it nearly impossible, something black mercenaries an milita did not suffer from. It's sadly the same reason the Atlantic slave trade happened as black slaves could be used in sugar mills in the Americas for their resistance to tropical disease.

[@ShangoHeruGinen1791]

J.A. Rogers said in his book " Sex and Race Vol. 1 " that there were Black Conquistadors. It is not surprising . The African Moors ruled Spain 700 years and when the Spanish reconquered it, they put Moors into their army. These Moors probably had no choice. I read that when some of these Black Conquistadors got to Mexico, they fled their Spanish overlords into the mountains and lived among the indigenous people.

[@tercomada]

Según los registros ( a la España imperial le encantaba registrarlo todo, por eso es tan fácil investigar la sociedad del imperio español) habían mucho más negros leales que desertores, la prueba de ello son los llamados batallones de morenos que eran milicias pero negros También el imperio español tenía una larga lista de tipos de mestizos, ( en el imperio si eras hijo de una nativa y un español peninsular te ponían en el archivo como " Manolo ( mestizo) " por lo que buscando la denominación que el imperio usaba para la gente negra ( creo que era la denominación " moreno" ) aunque eso sí, no todo el mundo estaba registrado y mucha gente estaba registrada por la iglesia no por el estado,

[@KingAsaBeatz]

Almost like the Buffalo soldiers.

[@stormy-le6pb]

Dakotas called them buffalo soldiers cuz their hair resembled buffalo hair.

[@b.x8429]

Kinda but Buffalo soldiers were used by America and was cut out of history like they never existed

[@dappdaddy33]

…origin of Buffalo Soldiers hunted run away slaves not popular FACT😳💯✔️…

[@sleepyccs]

Many Buffalo Soldiers were afro-indigenous like John Horse's son and grandson.

[@leonhenry4861]

We also killed Napoleons son in that war. We couldn’t get Napoleon so we got his son. That’s how to score.

[@Solomonspencedesigns]

This is new to me and I am loving the channel so far.

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

I'm not really surprised that they were black conquistadors since there's was an African presence in Spain after the Moors came. What is a bit surprising is the sheer numbers! I would have guessed there were a few black conquistadors but not nearly as many as you seem to indicate. Very interesting thank you for sharing!

[@m.worthy]

Iberian conquistadors used Africans and indigenous Amerindians in their European conquest of the Americas. Nothing new. Europeans did the same when they used opposing African peoples and tribes against other Africans during Europeans "scrambles for Africa". The unfortunare and misleading thing about this video content is that it points to a few Africans with fates different from those at the more extreme end of enslaved Africans in the Americas and it essentially romanticizes (literally & figuritively) a few outliers as if they were representative of a greater whole. The semantics and hyperbole are misleading. La India Catalina accompanied Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia as his expeditions explored and subjugated areas which are now Colombia. Would it be correct to designate every native Amerindian who assisted Iberians as a Iberian conquistador who'd benefit in the manner of such actual conquistadors who were Spanish citizens colonizing and conquering the New World? No. It is also just as disingenuous to point to instances of a number of Africans who served conquistadors and in a multitude of capacities, and present said Africans as if they were all free men or somehow representative of a major grouping of "Black Conquistators" who'd benefit from Iberian colonization of the Americas in the same manner as actual Portuguese or Spanish conquistadors. There are always outliers, but this video absolutely misrepresents and romanticizes.

[@michaelkelly9030]

I spoke on this ! You the man !

[@miked8642]

😉

[@dontbelikecr1ssy389]

Would we see a video of female black pirates in the Caribbean? That would be really cool to have more insight on that part of history… or herstory

[@mariahworkman4129]

Brother, thank you so much for this channel and the knowledge you bring!!!

[@armedwithwings3953]

Keep up the work

[@elijahsmith6422]

Finally touching on this subject. I been waiting

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

Watching this channel makes me so proud to be dark Skin, But then I think about how some in our community act today and, I cry like a baby 🥺 😢😭😱🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@scarletweb2106]

I agree

[@callumratcliffe7402]

And we get no credit apart for peps like yourself youngman well done for finding out the truth and knowing where you come from instead of running your mouth with no truth to what is coming out of it good work sir i applaud you!!

[@ceciliagonzalezgarcia9740]

In Spain we know about them, we teach and spoke about them if you whant to learn only need to search in Spanish

[@rubinortiz2311]

As a black and Native American person this deeply saddens me that we where so heavily involved in the genocide of the other half of me.

[@tylerrobbins8311]

90% died due to a combination of disease and the havoc domesticated pigs had on the Americas. But yeah it sucks about the slaughter that did happen.

[@lindomthembu4017]

I mean I dont know if this will help. But just remember the concept of a black race being a thing is a fairly recent thing.Those black conquistadors probably arent not related to your black ancestors.

[@drowjack]

Get out of the bubble and you will understand better a rather complex side of history

[@cheveyo1332]

I don't think it was as...voluntary as the video states. So that's not all that surprising

[@rubinortiz2311]

@@cheveyo1332 maybe it wasn’t but for a lot of them it was a way out of slavery. I don’t blame them for going that route it’s just it’s terrible it had to happen to begin with. At least some of them sided a long side the natives and fought back against Spanish incursion.

[@judahthegreyjedi6775]

That was a hard pill to swallow. But keep it coming.

[@brendaelbert541]

I know there are things that you spoke about that I never knew but I thank you so much and you can see the option that they chose was really to be free to be equal but later on in life the hand got switched around as it always is thank you so much for all of this acknowledgement and information.

[@abdullahdawudbryant6871]

This adds a new twist to our history in the Americas

[@itsbeyondme5560]

You should know this. I knew. Africans sold other africans. We are not innocent either

[@tercomada]

​@@itsbeyondme5560y los árabes esclavizaban cristianos( Cervantes fue esclavo de los árabes ) y los cristianos esclavizaban a los árabes Pero estos dos en su mayoría eran esclavos de guerra, pero lo curioso es que los cristianos no podían esclavizar a otro cristiano sin importar su raza, Por eso los jesuitas fueron a cristianizar las Américas lo más rápido posible por la corona, así legalmente los nativos no podían ser esclavizados ya que eran cristianos y además las leyes de burgos los protegían

[@dominicfaison5889]

You should have spent more time on the free African Americans that formed independent colonies and rebelled against conquistadors

[@sleepyccs]

Continental Africans.

[@sleepyccs]

The black conquistadors he is discussing were not African American. They were continental Africans.

[@rasil4u]

This was NOT about African Americans.

[@dominicfaison5889]

Luci Ryan Pretty sure they became Americans eventually but if sounds better to say Africans I’ll leave it at Africans for the time being

[@dominicfaison5889]

CCS The term black doesn’t work but African is fine by my standards. He touches a little on Africans that fought against the conquistadors but maybe not enough

[@comva]

This is definitely an important story to study. I had heard African Conquistadors put I didn't have any names. But I know of the first African to set foot on the new world. Estebanico who accompanied Álvar Ñúnes Cabeza deVaca.

[@juansanchez5001]

I appreciate hometown of spreading the true history of the invasions of 1492 and the African conquistadors role in that

[@Sebastianproxd-rj6yn]

Invasión? 😂😂

[@DerekFrazier2014]

I love what you shared just saddens me that we helped

[@ceciliagonzalezgarcia9740]

The principals instigators of the conquest of Hispanoamerica were natives , so don't worry

[@zerenamafdet]

💔The Buffalo Soldiers share a similar history as well.😢💔

[@boxingfirstvlog]

Damn never thought of them pertaining to this history of us...💯🥊

[@sleepyccs]

No they didn't. Many of them were Afro-indigenous like John Horse's son and grandson.

[@skip6639]

Love to see u shining brother defo 1 mill soon ongod

[@Mralbertorivera1]

The use of Black and African are such broad terms... I would like to know what did these conquistadors identified as?

[@secretagent0280]

Moors.

[@protectedspirit7692]

Broad terms yes and very deliberate. Thats why right now people are in debate about who is who as well as the what, when, where, how, and why. It's meant to confuse and divide.

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*Great job fam!!*

[@TheRenegadeMonk]

This actually highlights how different and game changing the introduction of race into the wider European consciousness was in the chattel slave trade that blew up later on. This example of early Euro-african slavery has black slaves gaining freedom and white soldiers working alongside free black men, all at the same time. This would have been unthinkable by the time the lie of black sub-humanity had been crystallised as justification for treatment of black people as property. This period seems to me a more normal type of historical slavery. The kind white folk don't believe existed because all slavery was equally bad so they are just as much victims because Romans/Ottomans etc.

[@matthewmann8969]

Yet both dehumanized the Native Americans from early on so yeah

[@TheRenegadeMonk]

@@matthewmann8969 not sure what your point is?

[@matthewmann8969]

@@TheRenegadeMonk The point on racism was already there it was just put mostly on The Natives at the time for a while

[@TheRenegadeMonk]

@@matthewmann8969 I'm not sure that's true. Not saying the conquistadors were treating the Americans well, but I draw a distinction between the pseudo scientific racism that separated people into groups to justify slavery, as opposed to general prejudice and the dehumanisation required to kill in war. Again, not saying one is better, and I could well be wrong, but I'm unsure if the Spanish saw the Americans as sub human as they later claimed of Africans when it became economically expedient.

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

@@TheRenegadeMonk right. The Spanish were pretty typical for Eurasians of the time. It changed with the introduction of race.

[@DS-tz4lk]

Great video 👍🏽Exceedingly enlightening

[@luisusero8507]

Do you know the history of Fort Mose and black Captain Francisco Menendez?

[@Colombia202]

Yes

[@dennisacardriche3696]

I suspected that happened historically, you’re on point 👍

[@ShonTV15]

Damn I didn’t know we helped the colonizers smh

[@guardiancologne9034]

History is complex and people are dynamic. We often try to simplify it with compartmentalizations.

[@petermorton301]

Unfortunately

[@tylerrobbins8311]

Well define helped? Many blacks were colonizers unless directly forced to the Americas as slaves they were colonizers.

[@jonathanalarcon1997]

I think it just shows that it really could've flipped the whole other way around and any race has the potential to conquer

[@iliyano567]

Dude like less than one percent.

[@blockavelli]

Great video I read a book on a black conquistador.

[@jswmoorishtempleofamen-ra2807]

I think these men who participated did what they had to based on the opportunity for freedom promised to them. Although they were turned on later by other opposing factions from Europe, self preservation is in most cases a mindset to remember before we condemn their actions. Serving in any military gives insight to this situation.

[@deborahbrown5153]

Thanks for that short piece of work.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah I figure Black people would take part in the Age of Exploration/ colonization and as far as a Spanish is concerned, I guess this can be traced back to the Islamic Invasion and conquest of Spain.

[@tratney]

Also the black jews as well

[@iam_dameechi]

Correction Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsula

[@Sp1n1985]

And Portugal and Italy

[@matthewmann8969]

That means that Sephardim And Ashkenazim also played a part as well as North Africans And Middle Easterners

[@m.worthy]

🙄 Be careful with the "Black Conquistador" SEMANTICS and how the term is hyperbolically manipulated (relative to context) throughout this video. Sure there were Africans who served in enslaved capacities and assisted in New World campaigns (Native Americans were also utilized and played against other tribes) alongside prototypical Iberian knights, soldiers, and explorers in regards to colonial expansion and militaristic onslaught, but the very semantics in the term "Black Conquistadors" is absolutely misleading (especially how it suggests significant quantity & roles by mentioning a few African outliers used by Iberians for colonial purposes). There were thousands of Iberian conquistadors responsible for subjugating inhabitants of the Caribbean, South America, and even areas of North America. Those conquistadors also had the support of their monarchy as well as Catholic popes. Just as those Iberian conquistadors utilized assistance from Africans, the Iberians also utilized indigenous Amerindians, playing them against other tribes. So we're calling native Americans who were used by the Spanish or Portuguese in colonial schemes "Indigenous Conquistadors" ? 🙄 If someone is going to try to give some misleading exaggerated examples of a relative handful of African exceptions to the rule (who were essentially used by colonial forces in capacities beyond field/plantation/domestic enslavement) the misleading may as well include all continental black African slave raiders who colluded with the Portuguese or Spanish slave traders. Those same black Africans who in the bigger picture indirectly supported European colonial conquest of the Americas are to be considered as "Conquistadors" too ? Their actions (catching Africans from opposing tribes and areas) indirectly supported Iberian footholds and the success of Iberian enslavement of Africans in the Americas. The context and semantics of the phrase "Black Conquistadors" are ridiculously hyperbolic & misleading. It is actually disgusting how the idea is even romanticized via drawings and the way in which much of the video content is disingenuously manipulated, worded, and presented.

[@khnemura9]

I think that it is Important to mention that the Moors spoken of are Black Arabs; who function exclusively out of the Arab/Muslim paradigm. This is why they approached other lands with the mind of a conqueror. Africans who belonged to particular groups inside of Africa never went on these missions because of the resources available on the land that they lived.

[@montumeroe9593]

Black Conquistadors? Anybody who looks back on this with pride I'm not joining you I only a complete numb nut would look back on this with pride.

[@kingvxv6438]

Bro no one is looking back with pride but it the truth. They were use as soldiers and Arab armies had black soldiers throughout the Middle Ages, these should not surprise you.

[@montumeroe9593]

@@kingvxv6438 If you want to proud of it fine not me.

[@jonathanalarcon1997]

I think it's very interesting and it just shows that any race can enslave and can also be enslaved

[@kingvxv6438]

@@jonathanalarcon1997 how? Not every race enslaved others races

[@jonathanalarcon1997]

@@kingvxv6438 I'm not saying every race did. I'm not sure about that, but what I am saying is if history was different, Africa (instead of Europe) could've colonised the world

[@currentlyearth8867]

Great steam👍👍!!!

[@Cobe1976]

Viva la Hispanidad! Viva el pueblo cubano! Viva el pueblo africano!

[@maatatoure9602]

Hometeam ❤

[@chamilitary07]

You hit the nail on the head there. People don't realize how Spain and Portugal had more black slaves than any place in Europe. This is no shocker. I've read about the black conquistadors in the new world. We have to acknowledge that they aided the Spanish in destruction in Latin America. Great video man.

[@matthewmann8969]

Yup as did The Mestizos and other Non Amerindians not just Europeans

[@chamilitary07]

@@matthewmann8969 It is true and that history needs to be taught.

[@mankuqhapaqii4798]

@@matthewmann8969 It was Amerindians who carried the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

[@eddiethorne6461]

I hope that people realize that the first black nation in the world known as Haiti helped The Dominican Republic,Colombia,Venezuela and Ecuador aided in the Liberation of some Latin American colonies from Spanish Colonization.

[@jeremiahmillan4487]

Ok but don't let that take away from the fact that they wouldn't of been doing that if they weren't forced to without freedom to do so.

[@gilwhitley6810]

First off, fantastic job, this video was packed full of great info, and the narration was pleasant to listen to. I am perplexed by one thing, however. You state that the fighting prowess of Blacks (with the Conquistadores, but elsewhere as well) was praiseworthy, and won them respect... also that they were "well-integrated in the Spanish colonies in the Americas by the 17th Century". And yet, when the Spanish set up the Encomienda System (basically based on race), the children born of a Black parent was considered the lowest of worth (two Spanish parents were at the top, then Spanish-Native mix, then two Natives, and lastly, a Native-Black mix). Also, Latin American society (especially Mexico) has very little respect for Black people in general (sadly, I've witnessed it first-hand). How did they go from a respected warrior class to the bottom of the food chain?

[@scar623]

They came before Columbus- Ivan Sertima

[@coreymcclammy1459]

Very informative, thank you for this.

[@SuperEone1]

This is honestly a part of history we shouldn't be proud of

[@uptown_rider8078]

Why shouldn’t we be proud of it? I have Spaniard ancestry (Actual Spanish ancestry) and I’m absolutely proud of the Spanish coming and spreading religion and civilization

[@Colombia202]

🇪🇸❤️

[@petermorton301]

The truth shall set us free this is part of the growth the truth 🙌