San Jose.
A colonial stronghold located at the western edge of Florida.
It wasn't a particularly large city. Nor was it an especially important one.
It was just one of many strongholds hastily built in Florida to check the Virginia community and England, a rather ordinary place that in the original history would have been established about 100 years later.
The fate of this small village, where about 200 to 300 people lived, changed during the recent "slave rebellion."
It was around the time when news of San Agustin's fall spread, the rebellion intensified, and the strongholds that Spaniards had built throughout Florida began to collapse.
Spanish people from northwestern Florida fled here in large numbers amid the madness of the rebellion.
No, it wasn't limited to the northwest. Like a rolling snowball, more and more slave owners fled from various parts of Florida to places where other slave owners had already fled.
