Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America

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in the late 1600s rival imperial powers spain and england shared a border near what became south carolina georgia and florida any slave who escaped to florida from the british colonies was granted their freedom for the enslaved spanish florida became the first promised land in 1738 a small group of black people created their own town near saint augustine they called it fort mosay the first all-black settlement in what is now the united states enslaved folk in south carolina realize that if they reach florida that is not controlled by the english perhaps they can seek refuge 300 miles north of fort mosaic near the stono river just outside of charleston word of the free town to the south reached a group of slaves this inspired one of the largest slave revolts in the history of the british colonies one morning in 1739 a group of about 20 black men set out before dawn as they traveled they
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