Fort Mose, 2nd Edition by Kathleen Deagan (.ePUB)
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Fort Mose: Colonial America’s Black Fortress of Freedom (Florida Humanities Partnership Publications), 2nd Edition by Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, Jane Landers
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Overview: The illustrated story of the history and groundbreaking discovery of an important historical site, fully updated on the 30th anniversary of its first publication
More than 300 years ago, enslaved people of African descent risked their lives to escape from slavery on English plantations in South Carolina. Hearing that Spaniards in Florida promised religious sanctuary, they made their way south to St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there.
Fort Mose traces the roots of this eighteenth-century free Black town from Africa through Iberia and Hispanic America to the colonial southeastern United States. It also tells how archaeologists, historians, local residents, teachers, and politicians worked together in the late twentieth century to bring the rich but neglected history of free Black people in the Spanish colonies to the public. The site of Fort Mose is now a major point on the Florida Black Heritage Trail and has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a UNESCO Site of Memory. Research continues at the location to the present day.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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