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Alonso de Illescas
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1528 –
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Who is Alonso de Illescas?
Alonso de Illescas was an African Maroon leader and was perceived as the single most powerful person in the Esmeraldas region of colonial northwestern Ecuador in the sixteenth century. According to historian Charles Beatty-Medina, Illescas was a typical “Atlantic Creole.”
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