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Theillustrated story of the history and groundbreaking discovery of an importanthistorical site, fully updated on the 30th anniversary of its first publication
Awardsand praise for the first edition:
FloridaHistorical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award
AmericanAssociation for State and Local History Award of Merit
?Tellsthe story of Fort Mose . . . as well as the story of the Black experience inthe American Spanish colonies.??Washington Post
?Avery important chapter of the U.S. national story.??Colonial LatinAmerican Historical Review
?Anexcellently researched and presented book. . . . Deagan and MacMahon have donea splendid job of bringing a little known story of African American struggle,courage and success to the public.??Public Archaeology Review
Morethan 300 years ago, enslaved people of African descent risked their lives toescape from slavery on English plantations in South Carolina. Hearing thatSpaniards in Florida promised religious sanctuary, they made their way south toSt. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish established the fort and town of GraciaReal de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black communityin what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose andthe people who lived there.
Fort Mose traces the roots of this eighteenth-century freeBlack town from Africa through Iberia and Hispanic America to the colonialsoutheastern United States. It also tells how archaeologists, historians, localresidents, teachers, and politicians worked together in the late twentiethcentury to bring the rich but neglected history of free Black people in theSpanish colonies to the public. The site of Fort Mose is now a major point onthe Florida Black Heritage Trail and has been designated a National HistoricLandmark and a UNESCO Site of Memory. Research continues at the location to thepresent day.
This second edition is updated with new informationuncovered about Fort Mose, its inhabitants, and its historical significance. Itreflects recent developments in community involvement and preservation at thesite. And as the first edition did, it challenges the idea that the American Blackcolonial experience was only that of slavery, offering a story of a courageousgroup of people of African descent who realized their vision ofself-determination before the American Revolution.
ixPREFACE
xiACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1Spanish Sanctuary
4African Origins
8Origins of Slavery in the Americas: Africa and Iberia
15Slavery in Iberia after the Christian Reconquista
18Coming to America: Africans in the Early Colonies
26Slaves of Disease: Victims of Health
28Black Explorers and Conquistadors
31Palenques and Cimarrones: Black and Indigenous Resistance on the Spanish Frontier
41A New Social Order
43Black Militia in the Spanish Colonies
45African People in the Colonial Southeast
47Neighbors to the North: The Black Community in South Carolina
53"Giving Liberty to All"
56The Establishment of Mose: A Fortress of Freedom
64Urban Interlude, 1740-1752
71Fort Mose Resurrected
75Defending the Fort
81Life at Mose: A Cultural Cross Road
91Home and Family
97Daily Bread
98African Cowboys on the Spanish Frontier
102Catholic Converts
108Decline and Abandonment
111The Search for a Lost Fort
116A Thin Slice of Time: Excavating Fort Mose
123Reconstructing the Food of the Past
125Bits and Pieces of History
127New and Continuing Challenges
130Epilogue
133FIGURE CREDITS
141FURTHER READING
143INDEX
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