South America – Chile
Sian Proctor (1970- )
Sian Hayley Proctor is a geology professor, motivational speaker, pilot, artist, author, and spaceflight participant most noted for her flight...
Marcia A. Santacruz Palacios (1977–)
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Human rights activist and political scientist Marcia Alexandra Santacruz Palacios was born in Puerto Tejada, northern...
Juan Beltrán (? — ?)
Spanish Conquistadors in Chile “Image Ownership: Public Domain” Juan Beltrán was the illegitimate mulatto son of Juan Beltrán de Magaña...
Roger Dwayne Pierce (1951- )
Roger D. Pierce, U.S. Ambassador to Cape Verde, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Pierce earned his B.A. degree in Spanish...
Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. (1924-1983)
Clarence Clyde Ferguson was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uganda on March 17, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. He...
Robert C. Perry (1945- )
Robert Perry was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1945. He graduated from Hillside High School in that city in...
Juan Valiente (ca. 1505-1553)
Juan Valiente, a Spanish-speaking black conquistador, was born in Northwest Africa around 1505 and was enslaved and acquired by the...
The Tryal Slave Ship Rebellion, 1805
The Tryal Rebellion of 1805 is a little known account of a shipboard slave uprising in the South Pacific off...
Eleven Years in the U.S. Navy: The Strange Saga of Robert Shorter
In the account below historian Lorraine McConaghy uses the story of black sailor Robert Shorter to indicate that while the...
