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<p>ICYMI: Toronto&#x27;s oldest Black institution — a small brick church founded by slaves who fled to Toronto though the Underground Railroad —celebrates 200 years</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/torontos-first-baptist-church-200-years-9.7071006" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/torontos-first-baptist-church-200-years-9.7071006"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto</span><span class="invisible">/torontos-first-baptist-church-200-years-9.7071006</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/olderthancanada/" rel="tag">#OlderThanCanada</a> <a href="/tags/toronto/" rel="tag">#Toronto</a> <a href="/tags/undergroundrailroad/" rel="tag">#UndergroundRailroad</a></p>

<p>New lecture video &quot;Black Georgians, Spanish Florida, and the Seminole&quot; freely available at the Georgia Archives YouTube page; you can access this from the Archives&#x27; homepage. </p><p>From the beginning of the Revolutionary War to the eve of the First Seminole War in 1817, hundreds of people of color in Georgia and, to a lesser extent, South Carolina crossed the borders and boundaries separating the Lowcountry from Spanish coastal Florida and from the Seminole. This counter-narrative in American history is a potent reminder of the strength of Black resistance in the post-Revolutionary South and of this community’s ability to shape the balance of power in a contested region.</p><p>Dr. Paul Pressly is the author of &quot;&quot;A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians, Spanish Florida, and Indian Country&quot; from the University of Georgia Press. </p><p><a href="/tags/spanishflorida/" rel="tag">#SpanishFlorida</a> <a href="/tags/seminole/" rel="tag">#Seminole</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/peopleofcolor/" rel="tag">#PeopleOfColor</a> <a href="/tags/undergroundrailroad/" rel="tag">#UndergroundRailroad</a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://georgiaarchives.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>georgiaarchives.org/</a></p>