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The Southern Underground Railroad: The Spanish Offer
Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast
Season 2, Episode 2: "The Spanish Offer"
Eleven people sail from Carolina toward Spanish Florida in 1687. A boat, a border, and a decree turn into the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what becomes the United States.
This episode traces the Southern Underground Railroad to its origin point - the coastal corridor through Gullah Geechee territory, the Spanish decree of 1693 that offered freedom with strings attached, and Francisco Menéndez, a Mandinka man who reads a hostile empire's own rules and turns them into liberty for himself and…
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