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In the war of Spain agaisnt the English colonies (mostly populated by Scots, English and Eermans) in Louisina, Black Slaves used to escape to the Spanish territory because they knew that even if in the Spanish Smpire was Slavery, they knew it was much less bad than in the English colonies. The fun comes when the Spanish king liberated them from their Slavery status and gave them weapons and cities in the border, Fort Mose, to defend themselves. Of course the English officers made a official protests because it was wrong to let Negroes kill White People. The Spanish king simply didn't gave a fuck.
>Fort Mose (originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose [Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose],and later as Fort Mose, or alternatively Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa) is a former Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1738, the governor of Spanish Florida, Manuel de Montiano, had the fort established as a free black settlement, the first to be legally sanctioned in what would become the territory of the United States
>As early as 1689, the colonial authorities of Spanish Florida had begun to offer asylum to escaped slaves fleeing from the Virginia Colony. One particular place of interest was St. Augustine, where the Spanish had established Mission Nombre de Dios with the help of Afro-Spanish slaves and settlers in the late 16th century
>In 1693, King Charles II of Spain issued a royal decree proclaiming that runaways would be granted asylum in Florida in return for converting to Catholicism, which required baptism with Christian names, and serving for four years in the colonial militia. By 1742 the community had grown into a maroon settlement similar to those in other European colonies in the Americas, and the Spanish utilized the settlement as the first line of defence against outside incursions into Florida
