[Aztlan] Mayans in Europe

[Lawrenc846 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/07 5:22:10 PM, weeksj at pobox.upenn.edu writes:


> Many years ago Larry Feldman mentioned to me something about Yucatec Maya 
> being
> brought to Spanish and settled (kept?) in a community north of Seville. Not
> quite you area of interest, there are historical accounts of Yucatec Maya 
> being
> brought to the island of Tortuga, north of Haiti (Santo Domingo).
> 
> John M. Weeks
> 

John

      The Maya community north of Seville was speculation, based upon some 
loan words, not fact.   I don't know anything about Maya being brought to 
Tortuga but there were plenty of Maya resettled in Jamaica and some in Virginia.   
These were Indians caught in slave raids on the Yucatan peninsula by the 
Mosquito Indians and sold to the British.   Time period was the first half of the 
18th century.   The Virginia Maya were slaves brought to Virginia from Jamaica.

         Larry Feldman