Fort Mose : colonial America's Black fortress of freedom /
"This book tells the story of Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black community in what is now the United States, highlighting a courageous group of people of African descent who realized their vision of self-determination before the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville, FL :
University Press of Florida : Florida Humanities,
[2025]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Spanish Sanctuary
- African Origins
- Origins of Slavery in the Americas: Africa and Iberia
- Slavery in Iberia after the Christian Reconquesta
- Coming to America: Africans in the Early Colonies
- Slaves of Disease: Victims of Health
- Black Explorers and Conquistadors
- Palenques and Cimarrones: Black and Indigenous Resistance on the Spanish Frontier
- A New Social Order
- Black Militia in the Spanish Colonies
- 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
- Defending the Fort
- Life at Mose: A Cultural Cross Road
- Home and Family
- Daily Bread
- African Cowboys on the Spanish Frontier
- Catholic Converts
- Decline and Abandonment
- The Search for a Lost Fort
- A Thin Slice of Time: Excavating Fort Mose
- Reconstructing the Food of the Past
- Bits and Pieces of History
- New and Continuing Challenges
- Epilogue