Pedro Alonso Niño

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Pedro Alonso Niño
Painting of Pedro Alonso Niño in the Monasterio de La Rábida
Bornc.1455
Moguer, Spain
Diedc.1505
Known forExplorer

Pedro Alonso Niño (c. 1455 – c. 1505)[1] was a Afro-Spanish[dubious – discuss] explorer during the 15th century.[2] He piloted the Santa María during Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492,[1] and accompanied him on his third voyage in 1498 to Trinidad.

Biography

Niño was born in Moguer, Spain he was known as El Negro.[citation needed] His father was Juan Nino, a Spanish sailor, and his mother was of African descent.[dubious – discuss] According to the folklore, Juan Nino was one of the captured European sailors in the Ghanaian settlement Elmina. He sired four famous sailor children namely Pedro Alonso, Francisco, Juan, and one other Niño. [3]

He explored the west coast of

Orinoco River
. After returning to Spain, Niño made preparations to explore the Indies independently, looking for gold and pearls. Empowered by the
quinto real
).

In the company of brothers

Cubagua, they exchanged objects of little value for a large number of pearls before sailing up the coast to Punta Araya
, where they discovered salt mines.

After just two months they were back in Baiona, Spain, loaded with wealth. However, they were accused of cheating King Ferdinand II out of his portion of the spoils.[4] Arrested, and with his property confiscated, Niño died before the conclusion of his trial.

Death

Pedro died around 1505.[1]

Legacy

There is a monument to Pedro Alonso Niño in the Convent of San Francisco in Moguer, Spain.[6] In 1930, Niño was honored with one of the 33 dioramas at the American Negro Exposition in Chicago.[7]

See also

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1
    . Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. ISBN 978-0-313-38540-7
    .
  3. ^ Dokosi, Michael Eli (20 September 2019). "Meet the Elmina people of Ghana, the first Africans to receive Europeans in West Africa". Face2Face Africa. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  4. ^
    New International Encyclopedia
    . Vol. XIV. 1905.
  5. ^ Alice Bache Gould, Nueva Lista Documentada De Los Tripulantes De Colon En 1492, Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, Tomo CLXX, Número II, 1973, passim., including p. 80. However, as noted on p. 293, some near-contemporaries place him as pilot of La Niña.
  6. ISSN 2340-7565
    .
  7. ^ "American Negro Exposition 1863-1940, July 4 to Sept. 2, 1940, Chicago, IL" (PDF). Living History of Illinois. p. 10. (7. Pietro Alonso, Pilot of the Santa Maria)

References

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