Black Freedom in Florida 1700-1865 examines 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 at Tampa Bay, both of which flourished during the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.