| Date |
Event |
Trail Link |
| 1565 |
Spain Founds St. Augustine |
 |
| 1586 |
Drake leaves 88 free blacks at Roanoke |
 |
| 1588 |
Defeat of Spanish Armada |
|
| 1608 |
Angolan slave leads rebellion of cimarrons
in Mexico |
|
| 1655-6 |
Spain allies with Jamaican maroons against
the British |
 |
| 1670s |
British colonize the Carolinas |
|
| 1674 |
British lead slave raids on Spanish missions |
|
| 1693 |
Spanish Florida offers freedom to British
slaves |
|
| 1713 |
Spain invites Lower Creeks to Florida |
|
| 1714-16 |
Yamassee War takes place in
Carolinas |
|
| 1716-63 |
Carolinians complain of losing slaves to
Spanish |
|
| 1716-31 |
African slave trade booms in Carolinas |
|
| 1728 |
British attack St. Augustine |
|
| 1728 |
British enlist Creeks and Cherokees to recover
slaves |
|
| 1730s |
Increasing number of Carolina slaves
seek refuge in Florida |
|
| 1732 |
Oglethorpe founds Georgia |
|
| 1736 |
Black defenders of St. Augustine
join organized militia |
|
| 1738 |
Spanish establish Mose on
outskirts of St. Augustine |
|
| 1739 |
Jamaica grants freedom to maroon warriors |
|
| 1739-42 |
War of Jenkin's Ear sends British
forces into Florida |
|
| 1744-48 |
King George's War exacerbates
Florida conflicts |
|
| 1763 |
Spain cedes Florida to Britain |
|
| 1765-71 |
British agents first meet "Seminolies" |
|
| 1775 |
England welcomes runaway slaves from America |
|
| 1776-83 |
Seminoles steal slaves from British
plantations |
|
| 1781-84 |
British Florida plagued by slave rebellions |
|
| 1783 |
Britain returns Florida to Spain |
|
| 1784 |
British evacuate Florida, leave many black
refugees |
|
| 1795 |
Treaty of San Lorenzo ends Spanish edicts of
freedom |
|
| 1811 |
Congress authorizes covert action to seize
Florida |
|
| 1812-13 |
Patriot War |
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