Page 3 - THE FORTRESS OF FREEDOM

1619, the British bring 20 enslaved Africans to Jamestown
(Virginia) to work on plantations and it's considered in the

US as the first slaves brought in the British colonies.

1693, Carlos II, King of Spain granted freedom to slaves

seeking refuge in Spanish Territory, encouraging
runaways … a policy that aimed at undermining the British
plantations industry. Any escaped British slaves must

agree to convert to Catholicism and serve Spain in the

militia for four years.

1732, the British expended heir footprint on the east coast,
by creating Georgia, the 13 colony, as a buffer territory
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between Carolina and the Spanish colony of Florida.

1738, the free black town of Gracia Real Santa Teresa de
Mose (Fort Mose) was established and became a

sanctuary of freedom for 25 years in the nascent America.

1763, Spain signed the 1st Treaty of Paris in order to
recover Cuba and the Philippines, lost to the British again

their territory in Florida…