Estevanico

Also known as Estevan, Stephen, Esteban de Dorantes, Estebanico

Estevanico (–1539), Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first African and person to explore North America and one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

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Person.name: Estevanico
Person.other_names: Esteban the Moor, Little Stephen, Esteban de Dorantes
Person.birth_date: c. 1500
Person.birth_place: Azemmour, Morocco (Wattasid period)
Person.disappeared_date: 1539
Person.disappeared_place: Hawikuh, Nuevo México, New Spain
Person.occupation: Explorer in present-day Mexico and parts of the southwest United States

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Commons category: Esteban de Dorantes
date of death: 1540-00-00
date of birth: 1500-00-00
pseudonym: L’enfant des dahou
name in native language: Estevan de Dorantes
birth name: مصطفى الازموري

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Background
Narváez expedition
Expedition to New Mexico
Death accounts
Representation in other media
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Estevanico (–1539), Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first African and person to explore North America and one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

Little is known about Estevanico's background but contemporary accounts described him as a "negro alárabe" or "Arabic-speaking black man" native to Azemmour, Morocco. In 1522, he was sold as a slave to the Spanish nobleman Andrés Dorantes de Carranza in the Portuguese-controlled Moroccan town of Azemmour.