John Malveaux: Spanish Florida offered freedom to slaves fleeing British colonies "if they declared their allegiance to the King of Spain and joined the Catholic Church"

John Malveaux of 

www.MusicUNTOLD.com 

writes:

All American history books should be rewritten.

Hidden away in the marshes of St. Augustine, Florida is one of the most important sites in American history: the first free community of ex-slaves, founded in 1738 and called Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose or Fort Mose (pronounced Moh-Say).

More than a century before the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves from the British colonies were able to follow the original "Underground Railroad" which headed not to the north, but rather south, to the Spanish colony of Florida. There they were given their freedom, if they declared their allegiance to the King of Spain and joined the Catholic Church.

Fort Mose was the northern defense of St.Augustine, the nation's oldest city.

The events that took place there should cause all American history textbooks to be rewritten

http://fortmose.org/history