You could say this is the perfect case of reviving lost history.

Back in the mid-1980s, a then University of Florida graduate dug around in the archives and pinpointed the first town for free Black people in what would become the U.S. 

For more, KCBS Radio's Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart were joined by Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History. She actually discovered the archives around Fort Mose. 

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