NO. WE WERE NOT ALREADY HERE
FBAs came from Africa.
The black slaves of the 1526 rebellion were enslaved Africans first taken to the Caribbean then brought to north America by the Portuguese.
About 100 enslaved African Caribbean came with the Portuguese expedition.
They were part of the failed Spanish colony of San Miguel de Gualdape (located in present-day Georgia or South Carolina).
After the revolt the black (now ex-slaves) found refuge in the Native American lands of the 'Guale' people then vanished permanently from European colonial records.
And no they were not the forefathers of the Gullah Geechee who came much later during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Slaves who came directly from Africa (FBAs) did not arrive in north America until 1619. Numbering around 20.
The only thing native about FBAs to America is the identity that came about through centuries of intermarriage, shared communities, and the tragic intersections of the transatlantic slave trade with Indigenous nations.
But even these Black individuals who married and shared communities with Natives were still descendants of Africa.
There is no pre-existing, separate population of "indigenous black" people native to the Americas.
FBA History goes back hundreds of years in America.
Native American history goes back thousands of years in America.
Approximately 388,000 to 450,000 enslaved Africans were brought directly to mainland North America (the area that became the United States) during the transatlantic slave trade. While over 12.5 million captives were shipped from Africa to the entire New World, the vast majority went to South America and the Caribbean.
What happened to the transatlantic slave ships?
When the transatlantic slave trade ended in the 19th century, most slave ships were repurposed into regular merchant cargo vessels, abandoned to rot, intentionally scuttled to hide illegal operations, or wrecked at sea.
Source: The slaves during the revolt in the 1500s came from Spanish Caribbean
Source: History of gullah geechee
Source: Black-Native Identity and Futurity
Source: Black indigenous in America?