USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) is a former Spanish colony in present-day Georgetown County, South Carolina, founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. It was the first European settlement in what became the continental United States, and the third in North America north of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1526, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón established the first Spanish colony, which he named San Miguel de Gualdape after the Guale Indians. Located near Sapelo Sound in present-day Georgia, the community did not survive because of poor planning and difficult weather conditions.

Detailed explanation-3: -San Miguel de Gualdape initially had some six hundred residents, among them sailors, Spanish colonists (including women and children), several priests, and an unknown number of African slaves. The group constructed houses and a church and established the institutions of government there.

Detailed explanation-4: -The colonists settled farther south-between South Carolina’s Pee Dee River and Georgia’s Sapelo Island-named it San Miguel de Gualdape and ordered the enslaved Africans to clear the land and start building homes and a church.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1526, enslaved Africans were part of a Spanish expedition to establish an outpost on the North American coast in present-day South Carolina.