Gonzalo Guerrero
Male, Deceased Person
– 1536
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Who was Gonzalo Guerrero?
Gonzalo Guerrero was a sailor from Palos, in Spain who shipwrecked along the Yucatán Peninsula and was taken as a slave by the local Maya. Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya Lord and raised three of the first mestizo children in Mexico and presumably the first mixed children of the New World. Little is known of his early life.
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