Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America

In this one-of-a-kind historical picture book, author Glennette Tilley Turner tells the story of Fort Mose, which was founded in St. Augustine, Florida, and was the first free African settlement to legally exist in what later became the United States.

Beginning with the story of Francisco Menendez, the captain of the black militia of St. Augustine, Fort Mose follows the history of slavery from West Africa to America, recounts what daily life was like, and describes the fo…