I need to think about discontinuing this blog. It's a constant effort to delete scammers' posts from every entry. There must be a better way to communicate with my readers.  &nbsp&hell…Read More

Note to Texas State Rep. Matt Krause. I am disappointed that the list of 800 books you recommend for banning does not include my book, Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America. Surely… Read More

I found a Wikipedia article that is even more inaccurate than the one I discussed earlier about Esteban.      The article for Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, who was… Read More

I found a Wikipedia article that is even more inaccurate than the one I discussed earlier about Esteban.      The article for Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, who was… Read More

Esteban and The Children of the Sun will be presented October 13 at  the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, Iowa. Offered as a "musical suite," the performance used the book  Esteban: T… Read More

Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America is my first hardbound book, so I feel like a real writer now. It is a nonfiction biography published by University of New Mexico Press. Catego… Read More

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The first free African to come to present-day U.S. was Juan Garrido, who accompanied Juan Ponce de Leon on both of his voyages to Florida in 1513 and 1521. Like Ponce, Garrido was… Read More

For those interested in such things, here are some facts about Esteban's name:      * Esteban is a Spanish male given name, derived from Greek Στ… Read More

It is traditional wisdom (and therefore very likely wrong) that Zuni Indians killed Esteban the day after he arrived at the Zuni village of Hawikuu in April of 1539.      My b… Read More

Readers might not be aware of the differences in Esteban's Spanish society and America's society today.      Following are some of the major differences:      *… Read More

Indigenous Day? Columbus Day? New Mexico and some other states have embraced the first option because of Columbus's treatment of the natives of the Americas since he first arrived in 1492. T… Read More

For years Esteban's biography author Dennis Herrick has collected science fiction novels and short stories about the "First Contact" by extraterrestrial aliens from another planet with the p… Read More

Yikes. Although all my notes and early manuscript versions said March 30, somehow the book ended up with an April 7 date on page 161 for Esteban’s departure from Vacapa. He actually le… Read More

The book Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America has been published for 14 months, but reviews are still being written, the latest being:      “A fascinatin… Read More

Many people today have trouble understanding why European colonizers treated Natives of the Americas so cruelly for centuries that bishops, popes, churches, and national governments since th… Read More

A prestigious Santa Fe film rights company contacted the author of Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America and is seeking a company that would produce a movie or TV series about Este… Read More

There is a curious omission of sex by the entire Cabeza de Vaca group over the eight years of their travel across the continent. While enslaved, that's understandable, but in the last year a… Read More

The horrors of Europeans and then we Americans invading, conquering, enslaving, and killing millions of indigenous people across the Americas can be directly traced to an ages-old philosophy… Read More

Of course, you should read my book Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America, if you want to know more about Esteban and the place he holds in American history centuries later.  … Read More

A discussion guide is available for book clubs (or individuals) that read Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America.      Because the book's events take place in the six… Read More

A classic example of how even primary sources can be inaccurate is seen in how the original "eyewitness" of the 1619 arrival of the first Africans to present-day United States deliberately l… Read More

Traditionalist histories claim that slavery started in what is now the United States on or about August 20, 1619, when a British ship appeared in Chesapeake Bay and traded for food "20 and o… Read More

For perspective, the year that the Narváez expedition with Esteban left Spain to invade Florida, here is a list of some notable events in the rest of the world also occurring in that… Read More

Another unanswerable question— possiblyi the biggest one— is whether Zunis killed Esteban the day after he arrived at Hawikku Pueblo, in western New Mexico, as most books about E… Read More

A friend proposed that Cabeza de Vaca deliberately kept Esteban in the background in his 1542 book, possibly even with Esteban's knowledge.       Cabeza de Vaca neve… Read More