Gallery Page by hadassah | Aug 18, 2021 Slaves using the Mississippi River to escape. The Live Oak Plantation Leon County The Charlott Jane Memorial Cemetery in Coconut Grove in Miami. Notice the above ground system which was common in the Bahamas from which most of the residents came. The Mariah Brown home is the oldest black-owned home in Miami-Dade County. The children of black share croppers in Mississippi following the Civil War. Life was no better for them than it was before the war. The Old Squatter House the first settlement in Ocala. This is Olivia A. Davidson the wife of Booker T. Washington. She was born in 1866 and died in 1889. The ruins of Vendura which was destroyed in a fire in 1885. Uncle Van Moore_ ex-slave The Slave Market in St Augustine from which enslaved people were sold for centuries. A camp meeting in Deerfield November 9_ 1913 Florida State Archives Neg 13_656 The Slave Quarters in Fort Dallas on the Miami River. A large group of slaves being transported on a barge on the Mississippi River. The Spanish leave Florida in 1821 as the new American government takes over. Almost all the free blacks in Florida left with the Spanish to escape being enslaved. A restored slave cabin probably in Mississippi The triangular fort that was hastily constructed by Dade's men and in which most of them died. A typical home for enslaved people in the South Tuskegee Airmen became a reality because of the intervention of Eleanor Roosevelt with FDR. Mary McLeod Bethune may have had a hand in it too.. A.L. Lewis leftand the Afro-American Insurance Company at 101 East Union Street Jacksonville Florida. two black-cowboys roping steer Allie Neal daughter of Claude Neal a black man who was lynched in Marianna Florida on October 19_ 1934. USS Kitty_Hawk_my first carrier. I was the only black among the 1 400 officers. My dduties were on the bridge An escaped slave in the Union Army Florida State Archives Villa Vizcaya. near Coconut Grove was the location of he Punch Bowl . where pirate got fresh water from a stream that emptied into the bay. It was stopped up when the mansion was built. Black Seminole women Walter Irvin's home was located on this now empty lot in the black section of Groveland. The home was burned by the mob. Black Beard's grave Willis Winn with horn used to call slaves_ 1939 black cowboy in parade With Paul George « ‹ of 30 › »