First documented Christian bride in the United States.
This African-American owned bookstore focuses on the literature of the African diaspora.
Center of defense and heritage.
Construction was completed on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. Don Miguel O'Reilly served as the first parish priest of the new church...
An epidemic kills many of the paid Indigenous workers constructing the Castillo de San Marcos. Thirty enslaved African people were purchased from Havana, Cuba...
One of the city's oldest structures.
"Florida governor Antonio de Benavides establishes the first African American slave militia."Source: National Park Service...
Source: National Park Service...
The original destination of the Underground Railroad.
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose was the first legally sanctioned free Black community in the United States. It became the northernmost point of Defense for the S...
Pedro Menendez founds San Augustin as the capital of La Florida. His party is said to have included free and enslaved Africans...
British forces capture Havana, a major port of the Spanish Empire that was considered far more important than St. Augustine...
Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.
First Public school for Black students in the city.
Leader of the fort and town of Mose.
Fifty more enslaved African people were purchased to take the place of paid and enslaved Indigenous workers at the Castillo de San Marcos...
Site of the city's founding, now a religious pilgrimage site.
Polyglot, Interpreter, Freedom-seeker.
In return for Spain's military support during the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States of America returned the peninsula of Florida to Spanish...
Enslaved woman who lived during the Second Spanish Period.
Built in 1798, revived in 1939.
