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When Spain ceded the territory, almost all of its free blacks sailed with their Spanish allies to Havana. Temporarily, the fugitive slaves of North America lost an important refuge. Within a few years, however, they would find a new haven and, in a Native American community that was just forming, they would gain a new ally in the fight against American bondage.
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