Spanish Florida Freed Every Slave Who Ran

A fort two miles north of Saint Augustine once stood between Spanish Florida and British Carolina. The people who defended it had escaped slavery weeks earlier. Spain freed them, armed them, and placed them exactly where an invading army would arrive first. That arrangement held for decades, then collapsed in a single treaty. Chapters: 0:00 The Fort Under the Creek 1:22 The First Boat, 1687 2:26 What a Presidio Actually Was 4:30 The Man Who Fought Before He Was Free 6:15 When Freedom Could Be Suspended 7:28 The 1693 Edict No One Agrees On 10:10 Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose 11:26 27 Escaped Slaves Worth 7,600 Pesos 12:50 The Siege of 1740 14:02 Captured at Sea, Sold in the Bahamas 16:25 The Treaty That Moved the Border 17:22 What Happened to the Ground 19:00 How Far an Empire's Freedom Reaches Sources: Jane Landers — 'Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida' (1990) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/2162573 Jane Landers — 'Black Society in Spanish Florida' (1999) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/... Kathleen Deagan & Darcie MacMahon — 'Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom' (1995) Jane Landers — 'Francisco Menéndez: Freedom Fighter' entry in African American National Biography — https://www.adb.anu.edu.au Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources — 'Fort Mose Historic State Park' — https://dos.myflorida.com/historical/... Encyclopedia Britannica — 'Fort Mose' — https://www.britannica.com/place/Fort... BlackPast — 'Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (Fort Mose) (1738-1763)' — https://www.blackpast.org/african-ame... #FortMose #colonialhistory #Spanishempire #BritishEmpire