Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US ^6.8%

BBC Travel - By Lina Zeldovich - 2/23/2024, 1:30 PM

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Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black freedom-seekers journeyed south instead of north to a place that promised freedom. In October 1687, a dugout canoe arrived at the shores of St Augustine, then a settlement in Spanish Florida and now the oldest continuously occupied city in the mainland US. The canoe carried... more