Fort Mose: Colonial America’s Black Fortress of Freedom

This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black colonial experience as only that of slavery, offering instead a richer and more balanced view of the black experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.

Kathleen Deagan is curator of historical archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Darcie MacMahon is exhibit coordinator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, and assistant curator and exhibit coordinator of the Fort Mose traveling exhibit.
Published in cooperation with the Florida Museum of Natural History