An eighteenth-century map (above) shows the plan of St. Augustine, the capital of the Spanish colony of Florida. The location of Fort Mose, which was established in 1738 and was home to a militia consisting of men who had escaped enslavement in the English colonies to the north, is labeled Fuerte Negro. On an island in a salt marsh (below), archaeologists have excavated remnants of a second iteration of Fort Mose, where the militia was based from 1752 to 1763. archaeology.org 37