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Most histories of the African American experience start with the arrival of the first 20
Africans near Jamestown, a place called Port Comfort. And that's the first record
we have of Africans in the British colonies. But guess what? Africans really came to what
is now the United States more than a century before. Juan Garrido, the first African, came
to Florida in 1513 with Ponce de Leon, and the kicker is that he wasn't even a slave.
He was a free black man who was a conquistador just like Ponce de Leon. And he, like Ponce
de Leon was in search of the fountain of youth. No documentary has ever recorded this.