Benkos Biohó was the son of an African king born in the late fifteenth century in the region of Bioho in Guinea-Bissau. At a young age, he was kidnapped by the Portuguese Pedro Gomez Reynel and sold to slave merchants. In 1596, he was sold once again as a slave to the Spanish Alonso del … Continue reading How this runaway slave founded San Basilio de Palenque, first free town in the Americas