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FAST FACT: The official name for Fort Mose (pronounced "moh-say") was "Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose."
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Fort Mose: Free African Settlement
Established in 1738 by Colonial Spanish Florida's Governor Manuel Montiano, Fort Mose gave sanctuary to Africans challenging enslavement in the English Colony of Carolina. - http://www.oldcity.com/sites/mose/
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When Florida was ceded to Britain under the 1763 Treaty of Paris, the free blacks of Mose, along with the rest of the Spanish population of Florida and their Indian allies, all left for Cuba, where they were resettled by the Spanish government. - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h14.html
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Spanish culture had a different way of viewing slavery than their English neighbors in the Carolina Colony did, and probably due to the influence of the Moors who ruled Spain for 700 years, slavery never had the racial overtones that it did to the English. - http://www.nps.gov/casa/home/ftmose.htm
The Story of Fort Mose
There is a story to be told. Its a historical tale about bravery, freedom, and betrayal. It's a story about people who conquered oppression, who rose above their enslavement, and, who even in death, are now conquering those who would have hidden their story. - http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213580/fortmose1.html
Fortress of Freedom
Fort Mose (pronounced Moh-SAY) was the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/services/magazine/01winter/mose.cfm
Fort Mose: America's Black Colonial Fortress of Freedom
More than 250 years ago, African born slaves risked their lives to escape English plantations in Carolina and find freedom among the Spanish living at St. Augustine. - http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/mose.htm
Underground Railroad--History of Slavery, Pictures, Information
You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape? Learn what challenges slaves faced in National Geographic's Underground Railroad adventure. Get information, pictures, photographs, biographies, resources, and more. - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html
Henrietta Marie Eduction - A Slave Ship Speaks
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida is a museum that showcases gold, silver and treasure recovered from shipwrecks in the new World. View treasures from the Atocha, Santa Margarita, St. John' Wreck and the Henrietta Marie. - http://www.melfisher.org/henriettamarie/education.htm
Florida Historial Markers Program
The Florida Historical Marker Program recognizes historic resources, persons and events that are significant in the areas of architecture, archaeology, Florida history and traditional culture by promoting the placing of historic markers and plaques at sites of historical and visual interest to visitors. - http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/markers/
Links to the Past
Explore America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts. - http://www.cr.nps.gov/colherit.htm
Our Shared History, African American Heritage
Our Shared History African American Heritage site presents exhibits items, historic locations, publications, and tools for learning dedicated to African American history. -
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/
Online Classroom
Florida History in Words and Pictures - http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/
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