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I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history The Conversation 1/1/2021 Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University © David LaFevor Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba. Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of enslaved Africans escaping from Protestant Carolina to find religious sanctuary in Catholic Florida. In 1738, these runaways formed Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first free black settlement in what became the U.S. The excitement of that discovery encouraged me to keep digging. After doing additional research in Spain, I followed the trail of the Mose villagers to Cuba, where they had emigrated when Great Britain acquired Florida. I found many of them in 18th-century church records in Havana, Matanzas, Regla, Guanabacoa and San Miguel del

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