He came to America as a slave. This Moroccan man later became one of North America's earliest explorers

• His name was Estevanico, and his story is one of the earliest and least known chapters of American history.
• What makes his journey so remarkable is not just the distance he covered, but how he did it, going from an enslaved outsider to a man Native communities across the region came to see as a healer and guide, at a time