Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US
Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black freedom-seekers journeyed south instead of north to a place that promised freedom.
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Stirling Bull Sales: Record average for Beef Shorthorns
Strong demand and an impressive display of bulls led to record-breaking trade at the Beef Shorthorn bull sales. With 47 bulls sold, the average…
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A piece of Black history to be reconstructed in Florida
A 12-year project to rebuild Fort Mose, a sanctuary where Blacks fled to freedom in the 17th and 18th centuries, will be completed later this year in Florida.
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Fort Mose State Park hosts groundbreaking ceremony to begin fort reconstruction
The Fort Mose Historical Society and the Florida State Parks Foundation host a groundbreaking ceremony to begin building a full-scale Fort replica
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What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history
St Augustine Catholic Church Archive. David LaFevor, CC BYFor most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. Many are not aware that black history in the United States goes back at least a century before this date. In 1513, a free and literate African named Juan Garrido explored Florida with a Spanish conquistador, Juan Ponce de León. In the following decades, Africans, free and enslaved
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