Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Cover:Hardcover • 2017 Book Riot winner

• 2017 Book Riot winner

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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Cover:Hardcover • 2017 Book Riot winnerGlennette 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