There is an excellent display about this period of Florida history at the Fort Mose Visitors Center (stop #9). In 1619, the British brought the first slave ships from Africa to Jamestown ...
In 1738, their descendants founded Fort Mose — the first free Black settlement in America. Roughly 500 Spanish colonists landed in Florida in 1565 under conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés ...
Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in the U.S., established in 1738. During this time, Florida was governed by the Spanish, who had a long history of owning ...
St. Augustine residents want Florida’s first-ever statewide museum of Black history to be built in their backyard.
Hidden among clustered palmetto and oak trees and underneath marshland, with swarms of mosquitoes hovering throughout, the ...
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