3.09 - Out of Slavery

How the Native population of Galveston Island was decimated. The expeditionaries too. How Cabeza de Vaca was left behind. And how he lifted himself up from "slavery" to become a merchant plying his wares up and down the Texas coast.

Pages: f26r-f28r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).

Cover art: "Slaves Digging Roots" by Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia, Courtesy of DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, DeGrazia Foundation, Tucson, Arizona. All Rights Reserved.

Texas State Center for the Study of the Southwest Cabeza de Vaca Resources