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Accepted Paper:
Sailors, soldiers, friars, settlers: the Portuguese in North America in the 16th and 17th centuries
Mariah Wade
(University of Texas, Austin)
Paper short abstract:
Portuguese sailors, soldiers, friars and settlers came to northern Mexico and the modern United States as members of the first colonizing expeditions and settlement programs. This paper explores their histories and the impact they had on the colonization process.
Paper long abstract:
Beginning in the early sixteenth century, Portuguese sailors, soldiers, friars and settlers entered North America through Florida and through Mexico to Christianize the Native American populations and to try their luck in the New World. Most arrived as members of Spanish colonizing expeditions, others as leaders and promoters of mining and settlement projects. This paper focuses especially on the expeditions of Pánfilo de Narváez (1527-1528), Vázquez de Coronado and Hernando De Soto (1539-1542), on Juan de Oñate who colonized New Mexico at the onset of the seventeenth century, and on Luís de Carvajal, a Jewish-converso, who settled in northern Mexico in the 1590s. The aims of these colonization projects were very different and so were the people involved. Using archival documents this paper discusses the presence and roles of the Portuguese in the colonization of the Americas.