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A Book of Freedom
The Confessions of Francisco Menéndez

After a West African man enslaved in colonial South Carolina escapes to Spanish Florida, he becomes the leader of the first sanctioned free Black settlement in North America and ultimately a hero in the fight against the British. A Book of Freedom: The Confessions of Francisco Menéndez is a docudrama that incorporates documentary evidence and historical fiction to tell the true story of one of the most remarkable people in Florida history..
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