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Destination Freedom: Dark Explorers (1948)
In 1541 in Peru, Omar, an Indian slave, and Alvaro, a Negro slave and former teacher from Seville, dig a grave for the murdered explorer Francisco Pizarro. As they work, Alvaro recalls his past, including his service as a pilot with Christopher Columbus and his later journeys alongside the explorers Balboa and Cortez. Alvaro reflects on the greed and violence each man brought to the New World. The episode is the chapter Dark Explorers in the Destination Freedom series, which dramatizes the history of Negro Americans, and it was first broadcast on July 11, 1948.
With Omar, Alvaro, Francisco…
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