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The Southern Underground Railroad: Fort Mose Part 1
Episode 3, Part 1: "Fort Mose: 1738 - The Town"
Before Harriet Tubman, before the Underground Railroad ran north, enslaved people were escaping south to freedom in Spanish Florida. Fort Mose, founded in 1738 near St. Augustine, stands as the first legally recognized free Black settlement in what became the United States, 38 years before America declared its own independence.
In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast, we step inside the walls of Fort Mose through the eyes of the people who built it. Drawing on archaeology and scholarship from Black historians Dr…
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