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Significant Highlights of the African Diaspora in Colonial Mexico & New Mexico​

1519 - 1848

Africans in New World diaspora had a wide range of experience from chattel slavery to valued servents to freed women and men.

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Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés with a man thought to be Juan Garrido, a free African conquistador. Codex Azcatitlan, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

John Horse, a black Seminole moved to Indian Territory in 1938 serving as a translator and US Army scout. N. Orr engraving, public domain

Estaban, described as "negro al arabe, natural de Acamor" sailed with Panfilo de Narvaez as his servant on a failed expedition to Florida. From there, Esteban journeyed to Mexico with Cabeza de Vaca, and onward to New Mexico. His journey ended abruptly in Zuni lands. He is the first non-native person documented to have visted the current southwest United States.José Cisneros, Cabeza de Vaca and His Three companions on the Texas Coast, Museum of South Texas History

Casta Paintinganonymous - Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, public domain

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By Frederic Remington - http://www.frederic-remington.org/Coronado-sets-out-to-the-north.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=676138

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1848 - present

Significant highlights of African American ​History in New Mexico​ & the Southwest

1903-1920s

1830 - 1972

1850 - 1950

1860 - 1950

African- American contributions to the railroads were largely limited to construction and food and porter services. 1911. Photographer: Unknown

Black men in military service were sent West and became known as Buffalo Soldiers. Many served in the US-Mexican borderlands. public domain

Blackdom was an Afro-frontier community in southwest New Mexico founded in response to Jim Crow laws. It existed from 1903 through the 1920s.Boyer family, undated. Courtesy New Mexico State University Library, Rio Grande Historical Collection, neg. no. RG98-109-001, 1920 Blackdom Townsite Plat, from Chaves County Clerk’s Office, Roswell

Bill Picket was an African American cowboy and rodeo performer from Texas. Photographer: Unknown

Vazquez de Coronado Sets Out to the North

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