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Fort Mose : colonial America's Black fortress of freedom by Kathleen A Deagan; Darcie A MacMahon; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1738, When More Than 100 African Fugitives Had Arrived, 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.--book Jacket. This Book Tells The Story Of Fort Mose And The People Who Lived There. It Challenges The Notion Of The American Black Experience As Simply That Of Slavery, Offering Instead A Rich And Balanced View Of The African-american Experience In The Spanish Colonies From The Arrival Of Columbus To The American Revolution.--book Jacket. Spanish Sanctuary -- African Origins -- Africa And Iberia : Precedents Of American Slavery -- Slavery In Iberia After The Moors -- Coming To America : Africans In The Early Spanish Colonies -- Slaves Of Disease : Victims Of Health -- Black Explorers And Conquistadors -- Palenques And Cimarrones : Black And Red Resistance On The Spanish Frontier -- A New Social Order -- African People In The Colonial Southeast -- Neighbors To The North : The Black Community In South Carolina -- Giving Liberty To All -- The Establishment Of Mose : A Fortress Of Freedom -- Urban Interlude, 1740-1752 -- Fort Mose Resurrected -- Black Militia In T

Author

Kathleen A Deagan; Darcie A MacMahon; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813013527

Subjects

History, Humanities