Marissa,
     The Florida Museum of Natural History used to have a travelling
     exhibit titled "Fort Mose: America's Black Fortress of Freedom" which
     you might enquire about. To quote Deagan and MacMahon's book on the
     subject, "In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived in
     St. Augustine, the Spanish established the fort and town Gracia Real
     de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally-sanctioned free black town
     in what is now the Untied States."

     Fielding Freed
     Hampton Plantation State Historic Site
     McClellanville, SC