Estevanico Survives the Narvaez Expedition Across North America

Estevanico (Mustafa Zemmouri), a Black Muslim man from Azemmour, Morocco, is enslaved and joins the 1527 Narvaez expedition to Florida. After catastrophic shipwrecks, he and three survivors spend eight years crossing the continent, from Florida to the Gulf of California, becoming the first documented non-indigenous people to traverse what is now the American Southwest.