After Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain from his eight –year expedition of Texas in 1537, he was appointed governor of the La Plata region of Argentina. Then he spends three years writing la relacion before he assumes his post as the governor. Finally in 1542 la relacion is published. Cabeza de vaca speaks of new edicts about the treatment of the natives and how it was fair and of the suppression of slavery which causes his men to rebel against him in 1543 and he is held prisoner from April to March 1544. In 1544 he is returned to Spain and goes to Madrid to have his pleas heard by the council of the Indies. In 1546, Alvar is sentenced to the loss of all of his positions of office in La Plata and is exiled to North Africa. He died in 1559 in Valladolid, Spain.
this is a picture of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.
Good information. I usually think that explorers are good and have good intentions in mind. Eventhough they have people who rebel against them, I feel they always win. I kind of think as the explorer as the good guy who always win. In this case, not so much. Cabeza was thrown in jail. Was he put in jail because of his slavery views? By what we learned in class and what I have read here makes me realize that Cabeza's views were not well liked by many people.
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