You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians.
Henry Louis GatesDr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Henry Louis GatesI'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
Henry Louis GatesWhen Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
Henry Louis Gates