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Born Mustafa Azemmouri in present-day Morocco, Estevanico was sold into slavery in 1522 by the Portuguese. A Muslim by birth, he was forced to convert to Catholicism by his new enslaver, Spanish explorer Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, due to a Spanish law that did not allow non-Catholics to travel to the Americas. When he converted he took on the Spanish name Esteban and was referred to as Estevanico, or Little Steven.