Editing African diaspora (section)

=== Dispersal through voluntary migration ===
{{Further|Emigration from Africa}}
From the very onset of Spanish exploration and colonial activities in the Americas, Africans participated both as voluntary expeditionary and as slave laborers.<ref name="warren">{{cite book |title = The Conquest of Michoacán |isbn = 978-0-8061-1858-1 |first = J. Benedict |last = Warren |publisher = [[University of Oklahoma Press]] |year = 1985 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first = James |last = Krippner-Martínez |title = The Politics of Conquest: An Interpretation of the Relación de Michoacán |journal = The Americas |volume = 47 |issue = 2 |date = October 1990 |pages = 177–97 |doi = 10.2307/1007371 |jstor = 1007371 |s2cid = 146963730 }}</ref> [[Juan Garrido]] was such an African [[conquistador]]. He crossed the Atlantic as a [[freedman]] in the 1510s and participated in the [[siege of Tenochtitlan]].<ref>{{cite book |title = Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |author1 = Kwame Anthony Appiah |author-link = Kwame Anthony Appiah |author2 = Henry Louis Gates |author2-link = Henry Louis Gates |page = 327 }}</ref> Africans had been present in Asia and Europe long before Columbus's travels. In the late 20th century, Africans began to emigrate to Europe and the Americas in increasing numbers, constituting new African diaspora communities not directly connected with the slave trade.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora {{!}} Perspectives on History {{!}} AHA |url=https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-1998/defining-and-studying-the-modern-african-diaspora |access-date=May 22, 2022 |website=www.historians.org}}</ref>