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Fort Mose
1738
St. Augustine, Florida
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Spain offered freedom to any enslaved person who fled the English colonies and converted, and the escapees built a fortified town two miles north of St. Augustine. It was the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in what became the United States, and its militia defended the Spanish approach.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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