Florida archaeologists uncover America’s first free Black settlement



Archaeology students in Florida are working to uncover Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in the United States, which dates back approximately 250 years. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports on the project’s work during a politically challenging time in Florida. 

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33 comments

  1. DeSantis will just BAN it!!!

  2. When Freedom meant something for real!

  3. This is illegal they stop the natives they ran them off their land they messed up their Towns now someone is going to act like they're bringing somebody their history that they've been trying to have for centuries they made up a name for them in 1988

  4. Is not a find it is something that has been kept from the native people in Florida from discovering their past and even their future until this day

  5. Isnt it against the Florida governor's new law to let history make white people feel bad?

  6. How dare you assume their race. maybe they identified as white.

  7. Throughout American history, Blacks have tried to set up their own thriving communities many times only to have them destroyed by whites.

  8. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

  9. Its 2023 and were just now finding this from 1752 we HAVE GOTTA DO BETTER, Heal the African American community – we are still Stolen Refugee's always last but quick to get worked, we are so oppressed that we oppress our own Black community, CRT threatening to earase our painful history in which it is important to teach so we break these Vicious Psychological cycles. Imagine being Slaved for hundreds of years – becoming Free just to be constantly promoted as Domesticated terrorist or a Thug or Lazy*. We built the White House Unwillingly just to be contiually Harrassed, Demonized, and Systematically prey'd upon by the *Representation we helped build its terrible and I feel like im the only one that sees and feels this most of the time.

  10. Imagine what the US could be if accepted the truth of its past🇺🇸

  11. DeSatan, Trump, Musk and even Kanye are all in support of White Supremacy Fascism and need to be fought and defeated on All Fronts

  12. Only a matter of time before DeSatan bans all knowledge and teachings of this site —— All Americans need to stand a fight against Americas White Supremacy Ideology

  13. DESANTIS isn’t gonna like this “HISTORY” …Shhhhhh 🫠🤫🤫🤫

  14. The racist blacks will turn this into systemic white racism as soon as they can. No doubt about it.

  15. Lot of fatties in that march through the swamp.

  16. I believe that's illegal to find in Florida.

  17. That was a Spanish fort, not an American fort. Spain owned Florida at that time. When America got it back in 1763 we destroyed the fort. Also, colonies of East Florida and West Florida refused to fight the British and stay loyal to the crown throughout the revolutionary war. The Spanish had Florida for so long that it won't be until 2050 that the American flag has flown over Florida as long as the Spanish flag has.

  18. DeSantis thinks this is woke.

  19. This is amazing!!! Just don’t attempt to write a book about it…..👀

  20. I don’t think Desantis is going to like this 🤣🤣🤣

  21. Too bad its in Florida, DeSantis will try to demolish it for being woke

  22. Florida, based as always.

  23. What a great story 👏 👌

  24. GREAT!!! Now pay what's owed. ✊✊✊

  25. Are there any paper records documenting any of this? Or has everything said in this video currently just theories? And the big question is, how do they know this was an all Black settlement and not a regular settlement of this time frame? The artifacts mentioned could have belonged to anyone from the 1700s. I don't get it.

  26. And now they lead the nation in murders

  27. In before desantis calls this woke

  28. They needed an ARCHAEOLOGIST to find the first free Black settlement?

    Oh that's right it's Florida.

  29. Would you say it was political?

  30. I approve of this here message

  31. It's in florida
    we can't talk about it

  32. Great find. Looks very beautiful.