Fort Mose : Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose : a free Black town in Spanish Colonial Florida

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

Library.742

Description

34 pages ; 23 centimeters Fort Mose : Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose : a free Black town in Spanish Colonial Florida Reprinted from El Escribano 1991. Includes bibliographical references. In 1738, the Spanish established the fort-town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose as the first legal, free Black community in the United States. This book shows how the people of "Fort Mose" shaped Spanish international policy on slavery and provided inspiration for all slaves.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- History., Florida -- History -- Colonial period to 1821., Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763., African Americans -- Florida -- History -- Colonial period to 1821.

Publication Details

Author

Landers, Jane

Edition

Reprint

Publisher

St. Augustine Historical Society

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

St. Augustine, FL

Call No.

F 319 .S2 L36 1992