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Explore different aspects of this unique tropical region through exhibitions on Southern Florida and the Caribbean.
Permanent Exhibition
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Tropical Dreams:
A People's History of South Florida
Tropical Dreams explores South Florida history from prehistoric times to the present. Throughout the ages, the story has been characterized by arrivals—the immigration of people from many different places and cultures into the region—and by adaptation to the region's unique subtropical environment.
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Current Exhibitions
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Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami
On display March 5, 2009 to January 24, 2010
Diverse groups of the African diaspora have come to settle,work and struggle for
freedom in Miami since its incorporation in 1896 to the present day.
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Future Exhibitions
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Black Freedom in Florida, 1700-1865
On display June 25, 2009 to January 24, 2010
Black Freedom in Florida, 1700-1865 examines three ways in which Florida functioned as a unique haven for freedom-seeking African Americans from 1700 to 1865. Enslaved African Americans from the southern United States obtained freedom in Florida by running away to Spanish-occupied Florida, seeking refuge among free Black and Seminole Indian communities and resisting re-enslavement through strategic military service and warfare both against and for the British, the Spanish and the Americans. African Americans' ability to defy re-enslavement in Florida enabled them to develop free Black communities such as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St. Augustine and Angola in Tampa Bay which flourished during the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. On display will be artifacts, advertisements, maps, military and court records representative of these free Black communities and their struggles to obtain and sustain their freedom throughout the international battles waged for the control of Florida during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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