Jan 13, 2026
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The phrase "1526 FBA" refers to a core historical claim advanced by the Foundational Black Americans (FBA) identity: that in 1526 Spanish colonizer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón brought the first documented...
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
Spanish explorer
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What primary Spanish documents survive about Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 expedition?
Surviving Spanish documentation for Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón’s 1526 expedition is thin and fragmentary: historians rely chiefly on royal grants and legal contracts, contemporaneous chroniclers’ reports...
Jan 13, 2026
1526 slavery
The year 1526 marks an early and contested moment in North American slavery: Spanish expeditions brought Africans to the Atlantic coast that later became the southeastern United States, and those capt...