Spanish colonial policy granted liberty to escaped slaves reaching Florida

Evidence

From the early 1780s the Black liberationists were further encouraged by the action of the Spanish king, Philip V, who authorized granting them liberty once they reached Florida. In 1738, when sixty-nine slaves escaped to St. Augustine, they were settled at Pueblo de Gracia Real de Santa Terese de Mose, or “Moose,” two and one-half miles north of the city. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 709

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay on imperial competition for runaways as a recurring axis of Black liberation before abolition.
• XREF: connects to: Seminole sanctuary for runaway slaves provoked the First Seminole War — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 156