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Death of Biscayan conqueror Francisco de Garai, former governor of Jamaica

501
years ago

27 December 1523,

Francisco de Garai dies, explorer and Biscayan conqueror. Christopher traveled with Columbus to America on his second trip. He ruled Jamaica under the orders of Diego Colón and became rich. Garai organized the first army to force the inhabitants of the Caribbean to work in the cattle and gold mines, claiming that they were antopophages.

In 2011 the Museum of Embodiments presented the book accompanied by the President of the General Boards of Bizkaia as “the first great Basque explorer”. So much was the massacre of the conquerors that killed almost all the primitive citizens. That the Spanish emperor allowed from then on to repopulate the island with African slaves.

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