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Item Nr: B 111894 Title: Fort Mose
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Turner, Glennette
Length: 42 Prod/Pub: Abrams
Copyright: 2010 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee: Menendez, Francisco
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Complete title: Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America by Glennette Tilley Turner. Tells the story of Fort Mose, the first free African settlement to legally exist in what is now the United States, established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1738. Includes over forty images, as well as notes on the uncovering of the fort. RC 10.0. Lexile 1180. AR 8.4. IL 5-10.

  Subjects:
  26 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
  1681 - LEXILE 1100-1199
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  998 - SLAVERY
  1111 - U.S.--HISTORY--COLONIAL PERIOD