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10-05-2020, 12:15 PM
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Secrets of the Dead - Secrets of Spanish Florida (PBS)


This was a documentary I downloaded to watch but which may well turn up on PBS America, available 24 hours a day on Freeview 91, Freesat 155, Virgin Media 273 and Sky channel 174.

https://www.pbsamerica.co.uk/about/

"Secrets of the Dead" is an excellent series and "Secrets of Spanish Florida" was an eye-opener.

Trailer:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/sec...synopsis/3626/

The first permanent European settlement in the United States, Saint Augustine, was founded in 1565 – two generations before the settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth – not by English Protestants, but by the Spanish and a melting pot of people they brought with them from Africa, Italy, Germany, Ireland and even converted Jews, who integrated almost immediately with the indigenous tribes. Secrets of Spanish Florida – A Secrets of the Dead Special uncovers one story of America’s past that never made it into textbooks.
By the time the Pilgrims came ashore at Plymouth, in 1620, St. Augustine was already a town with a fort, a church and about 120 shops and houses.

The episode reveals the history of an alternate, and different, colonisation of North America.

 

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