"Turkish galley slaves and Native Americans in 16. century
The first European settlement in the New World was Santa Elena [1] , South Carolina, established by the Spaniards in 1566. Many of the Santa Elena colonists were Berber Muslims and Sephardic Jews, recruited by the Portuguese Captain Joao Pardo from the heavily Berber Galician Mountains of northern Portugal. The colony thrived for more than twenty years until it was overrun by the English in 1587."
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