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He took with him 3 ships with him at the start of the first trip and of course he discovered america.
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No were were not.
Mercenary, I'm afraid. He sailed to attack Spanish ships that were shipping valuables that they themselves were plundering from central and southern America. This would enhance English influence and control over the oceans, and whilst the Crown (Elizabeth I) would have first dibs at the booty, he would have second call - then the ships' officers and crew.
The first African people in America arrived to the archipelagos and islands of the Caribbean. The first black Spanish navigator in America was Pedro Alonso Nino, he was a pilot in one of Christopher Columbus ships. At the beginning of the 16th Century more people of African heritage started arriving and settling in America, some of them as free men, but many others as workers, servants and even slaves.