Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Cover:Hardcover And he was a gifted

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Honor Book

Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Cover:Hardcover And he was a giftedGlennette Tilley Turner presents the story of Fort Mose in the only picture book for children about the first free Black community in America. In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in the colony of South Carolina and, with a small group of men, headed south to Florida, at the time a Spanish colony, to the town of St. Augustine. There he was granted his freedom. He soon became a member of the Black militia and helped defend the area