HOVER OVER PHOTOS FOR CAPTIONS Some black cowboys attained skills on horesback that amazed crowds. One of them could put out a hand-held lighted match riding by at full gallop. Texile mill The Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine was built with the help of skilled black slaves brought in from Cuba. 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 children of Johnnie Mae Chappell The cover of Le Petit Journal_ 7 October 1906. Depicting the race riots in Atlanta Georgia. The Lynchings in the United States The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta. Public Domain women power Mary McLeod Bethune entering the White House. She founded Bethune Cookman College in Daytona and was a close friend of Elanor Roosevelt.. The descendants of slaves on the Kingsley Plantation near Jacksonville Florida Slaves boarding a steamboat on the Mississippi River. The Florida Cracker Trail historic marker slaves escaping on the Mississipi River The Kingsley big house rear view 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. « ‹ of 37 › »