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The Story of Fort MoséPosted in History, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Slavery, United States, Videos on 2013-05-19 19:30Z by Steven |
Freedom Road Productions
2013
Derek Hankerson, Director
Francisco Menendez (played by James Bullock)
This is the story of Fort Mosé and Francisco Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida.
Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine HistoryPosted in History, Native Americans/First Nation, New Media, United States on 2012-07-04 23:15Z by Steven |
Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History
VisitFlorida.com
2012-06-29
Amy Wimmer Schwarb
Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding.
A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it.
Derek Hankerson, the man at the helm of Freedom Road, grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., learning the same tales of America’s birthplace that are told in children’s textbooks throughout the United States. But he often visited relatives in St. Augustine and could never reconcile the history he found there with what he learned in school.
“The sign in St. Augustine said, ‘Established in 1565,’ and then I go back to school, and I don’t see a thing about Florida. I don’t see a thing about blacks,” Hankerson said. “All I see is 1776.”
Hankerson spotted that disparity when he was about 10 years old, and announced to his family that he planned to correct it. He wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding.
Today, Hankerson is the managing partner of Freedom Road, which offers in-depth bus tours of northeast Florida that give visitors insight into an early American story that might be new to many of them.
“Our tours deal with five centuries of history,” Hankerson said. “This is history related to the New World. I say ‘the New World’ because that’s different than the United States of America. We’re talking pre-United States of America.”…
…James Bullock, the creative director for Freedom Road, is typically the guide for the tours. Dressed in period costume, he walks guests through how different cultures – Spanish, African, Native American, German, Irish, Greek – made their lives in the New World…
And Bullock and Hankerson stress that while much of U.S. history has focused on the separation of races, Spanish Florida brought a different culture to the New World. Even the geography of the Old World played a role: Only 11 miles separate Spain from Africa at their closest point, so trade, relationships and inter-marrying were common even before the groups came across the Atlantic...
Read the entire article here.