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TIL at one time slaves escaped to freedom in Florida.
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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-01
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Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-little-known-story-of-the-enslaved-africans-who-found-freedom-in-the-european-fight-over-north-america-180988252/
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alekwithak lemmy.world alekwithak@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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This is a fun rabbithole I dove down once. As a native Floridian my mind was fully blown by Florida having been a Spanish colony for 250 (1513-1763) years*, longer than it's been a US state (1845-2027).
Both displaced natives and slaves obtained freedom in Florida... until Spain ceded the land to Britain, which I'm sure was a dark day for many.
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IWW4 lemmy.zip IWW4@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-12
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alekwithak wrote:
This is a fun rabbithole I dove down once. As a native Floridian my mind was fully blown by Florida having been a Spanish colony for 250 (1513-1763) years*, longer than it's been a US state (1845-2027). Both displaced natives and slaves obtained freedom in Florida... until Spain ceded the land to Britain, which I'm sure was a dark day for many.

Thats amazing!
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quick_snail feddit.nl quick_snail@feddit.nl
Joined: 2025-07-15
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And then came the bastard Andrew Jackson
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Dicska lemmy.world Dicska@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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alekwithak wrote:
This is a fun rabbithole I dove down once. As a native Floridian my mind was fully blown by Florida having been a Spanish colony for 250 (1513-1763) years*, longer than it's been a US state (1845-2027). Both displaced natives and slaves obtained freedom in Florida... until Spain ceded the land to Britain, which I'm sure was a dark day for many.

It was literally this time I realised that florida is actually a Spanish word (meaning something like flowery).
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