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Fort Mose : colonial America's Black fortress of freedomEntry/Object ID
Library.743Description
vii, 54 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 23 x 29 cm
Fort Mose : colonial America's Black fortress of freedom by Kathleen Deagan.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 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 the Spanish colonies -- Life at Mose : a cultural crossroad -- Home and family -- The Mose family tree -- Daily bread -- African cowboys on the Spanish frontier -- Catholic converts -- Abandonment and decline -- The search for a lost fort -- A thin slice of time -- Reconstructing the food of the past -- Bits and pieces of history -- Epilogue.Collection
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch 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., Fort Mose Site (Fla.).Publication Details
Author
Deagan, Kathleen, Macmahon, DarciePublisher
University Press of FloridaPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Gainesville, FLCall No.
F 319 .S2 D43 1995ISBN
0813013526