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Easy Podcast: El primer Día de Acción de Gracias en Estados Unidos

In September 1565, Spanish colonizers led by admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived in northeastern Florida where they founded the city of San Agustín.

To celebrate, they held a thanksgiving mass followed by a large dinner shared with the natives of the region, 56 years before that famous dinner at Plymouth.

Click play to listen to the story of the first Thanksgiving dinner in the United States:

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