USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mose (pronounced “Moh-say”) became the first legally sanctioned free Black town in the present-day United States, and it is a critically important site for Black American history. Mose provides important evidence that Black American colonial history was much more than slavery and oppression.

Detailed explanation-2: -1726: Florida governor Antonio de Benavides establishes the first African American slave militia. 1738: Governor Manuel de Montiano establishes Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, commonly known as Fort Mose, the first free African American settlement in what’s now the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The network of safe house and anti-slavery activists stretched from the northern part of the United States to the southern tip of Florida. Escaped slaves would travel from the Carolinas and Georgia through Florida to Key Biscayne, where they would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Red Bays, Bahamas.

Detailed explanation-4: -On this day, July 27th, 1816, troops of the United States military assaulted and blew up an African-American and Native American settlement on the frontier of Spanish Florida during the Battle of Negro Fort. Negro Fort had served as a refuge for freed men and women, as well as those fleeing slavery in the South.