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	==Historical background==		==Historical background==
	As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to British slaves and in 1693 that asylum was made official by the Spanish Crown, that made it known that runaways would find freedom in ~~Spanish~~ Florida, in return for Catholic conversion and a term of four years of service to the Crown.<ref>Riordan, Patrick: ''Finding Freedom in Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, and Colonists, 1670-1816'', pages 25-44. Florida Historical Quarterly 75(1), 1996.</ref>		As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to British slaves and in 1693 that asylum was made official by the Spanish Crown, that made it known that runaways would find freedom in Florida, in return for Catholic conversion and a term of four years of service to the Crown.<ref>Riordan, Patrick: ''Finding Freedom in Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, and Colonists, 1670-1816'', pages 25-44. Florida Historical Quarterly 75(1), 1996.</ref>

	==Fort Mose==		==Fort Mose==

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United States historic place

Significant dates

Fort Mose Historic State Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Site of the old fort
Location	St. Johns County, Florida, USA
Nearest city	St. Augustine, Florida
NRHP reference No.	94001645
Added to NRHP	October 12, 1994
Designated NHL	October 12, 1994

Fort Mose Historic State Park (originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose) is a U.S. National Historic Landmark (designated as such on October 12, 1994), located two miles north of St. Augustine, Florida, on the eastern edge of a marsh. It is also a Florida State Park. Also spelled Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa.

Fort Mose (pronounced "Moh-say") was the first free black settlement legally sanctioned in what would become the United States. The community began when Florida was a Spanish territory.

Historical background

As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to British slaves and in 1693 that asylum was made official by the Spanish Crown, that made it known that runaways would find freedom in Florida, in return for Catholic conversion and a term of four years of service to the Crown.

Fort Mose

Incoming freedom seekers were recognized as free, taken into the Spanish militia and placed into service at the Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose military fort north of St. Augustine, which was established in 1783 by the Colonial Governor, Manuel de Montiano. The military leader at the fort was a Creole man of African origin, who has be baptized as Francisco Menendez by the Spanish

In 1740, English forces led by James Oglethorpe attacked and destroyed the fort. Its inhabitants fled to St. Augustine, where they stayed until Fort Mose was rebuilt in 1752. After Florida was ceded to the English in 1763 most of the inhabitants, including many black militia troops, migrated to Cuba with the evacuating Spanish.

Because Fort Mose became a haven for escaped slaves from the English colonies to the north, it is considered a precursor site of the Underground Railroad.

Sources

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-06-21.
^ "Fort Mose Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2008-06-20.
Riordan, Patrick: Finding Freedom in Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, and Colonists, 1670-1816, pages 25-44. Florida Historical Quarterly 75(1), 1996.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone. p. 74
Landers, Jane and Darcie MacMahon: Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom, University Press of Florida.(Landers 1999; Landers and MacMahon 1995).
Aboard the Underground Railroad - Fort Mose Site

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