How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer

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By Eliot Stein · BBC · May 2026

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"Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man travelled thousands of miles from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known outsider to see the American West."

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