The first free African settlement in the United States was founded in 1738. Called Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose or Fort Mose, it was founded by the Governor of Colonial Spanish Florida, Manuel Montiano. The settlement happened more than a century before the Emancipation Proclamation. Slaves from British colonies followed the original Underground […]
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