The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Series

Watch the full-length episode at http://video.pbs.org/video/2365103337… (US Only)
Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas—men who journeyed to this continent a century before the first “20 And Odd” Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Juan Garrido, a black African conquistador explored present-day Florida in 1513. Twenty years later, an African explorer, known as Esteban, struggled to cross a Texas desert—just one of four survivors of a Spanish exposition that went horribly wrong. Garrido and Esteban found hope and opportunity in this new land. But things changed quickly.