Resources on the Trans-Atlantic Human Trade in St. Augustine, Florida.

Documented Arrival Sites – St. Augustine, Florida

Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to St. Augustine | Open Tour

St. Augustine, Florida – Annotated Bibliography

Photo Archive – Florida

Disclaimer:

The content of these documents provides details of the Middle Passage, specific vessels transporting captive Africans, the arrival of these people, and the ubiquity of slavery. The following resources include racist language as well as references to violence, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Africans. The language contained in the following documents may be upsetting to some readers.

Newspaper Articles and Colonial Documents

Videos

Further Reading

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Florida. And Emerson’s Largely Unpublished Little Journal at St. Augustine, January-March 182

Eliciting Contraband through Archaeology: Illicit Trade in Eighteenth-Century St. Augustine

Dispatches of Spanish Officials Bearing on the Free Negro Settlement of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, Florida

A Culture Of Commodification: Hemispheric And Intercolonial Migrations In The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807

Donnan Archives – Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Volume 3)

Donnan Archives – Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Volume 4)

First Free Black Settlement in U.S., Long Buried, Is Being Resurrected

St. Augustine in the Seventeenth-Century: Capital of La Florida

The Origins, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War

Historic England Research Records

Captured in Ivory, Yet Forever Free