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Maria Sanchez Lake, near Lincolnville, St. Augustine.
Mose
The excellent exhibition at Fort Mose Historic State Park, is wonderful place to encounter Florida, Underground Railroad, colonial rivalries, fugitive alliances, piracy, the development of notions of freedom, and links to Haiti and Cuba. Fort Mose was a place where English, Spanish, and Timacua (wikipedia) would have been spoken.
“In 1738, the Spanish established the fort-town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose as the first legal, free Black community in the United States.” via Fort Mose : colonial America’s Black fortress of freedom (1996) by Kathleen A Deagan; Darcie A MacMahon.
Fort Mose Historical Society supports the park.
Eastern offerings
yellow buttons
Balduina angustifolia – coastalplain honeycombhead or yellow buttons
own wild beginnings
can the origin
story be re-told
transfigured …
book on place
AG2019-FlagerCollege-BookonPlace_Document091719.pdf