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[[Florida]] | ''[[United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Florida [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Florida Minorities '' | ||
== '''African-American Reources''' == | == '''African-American Reources''' == | ||
The Last Slave Ships: Key West African Cemetery | |||
This report details the evidence of an African cemetery at Higgs Beach in Key West, Florida, and describes how it was located. Includes facsimiles of historical records, maps, and photos. In 1860, the U.S. Navy intercepted three American-owned slave ships taking Africans to Cuba. Now refugees, the Africans were taken to Key West before being sent to Liberia. Many died and were buried at Higgs Beach. From the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. <br>[http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm] | This report details the evidence of an African cemetery at Higgs Beach in Key West, Florida, and describes how it was located. Includes facsimiles of historical records, maps, and photos. In 1860, the U.S. Navy intercepted three American-owned slave ships taking Africans to Cuba. Now refugees, the Africans were taken to Key West before being sent to Liberia. Many died and were buried at Higgs Beach. From the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. <br>[http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm] | ||
== | == Books == | ||
*''African Americans in the reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877'' | *''African Americans in the reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877'' | ||
WorldCat: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227191777&referer=brief_results Find at a library near you] | |||
== | == Web Sites == | ||
*[http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/BlackExperience/blackexp.pdf The Black Experience] (African-American Resources in the Florida State Archives) | |||
*[http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_researchers.cfm State Archives of Florida] | *[http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_researchers.cfm State Archives of Florida] | ||
*[http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/ Florida Memory: Digital Collections at the State Archives of Florida] | *[http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/ Florida Memory: Digital Collections at the State Archives of Florida] | ||
*[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1595003 Florida Deaths 1877-1939 ](Record Search) | *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1595003 Florida Deaths 1877-1939 ](Record Search) | ||
*[http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society ][http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm | |||
*[http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society ][http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm] | |||
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