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Fort Monroe named Site of Memory associated with UNESCO Slave Route Project

Fort Monroe named Site of Memory associated with UNESCO Slave Route Project
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Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that UNESCO has designated Fort Monroe as a Site of Memory Associated with the UNESCO Slave Route project. Photo courtesy Office of Gov. Ralph Northam.
The first enslaved African people arrived in the English colonies in the Americas in 1619 on a ship called the White Lion, landing at Point Comfort, the present site of Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton. ....

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I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history

I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history
The Conversation
1/1/2021
Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba.
Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of enslaved Africans escaping from Protestant Carolina to find religious sanctuary in Catholic Florida. In 1738, these runaways formed Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first free black settlement in what became the U.S.
The excitement of that discovery encouraged me to keep digging. After doing additional research in Spain, I followed the trail of the Mose villagers to Cuba, where they had emigrated when Great Britain acquired Florida. I found many of them in 18th-century church records in Havana, Matanzas, Regla, Guanab ....

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