Liberation for Slaves

As part of their campaign against the Revolution, British officials encouraged enslaved Blacks to flee from servitude, promising to liberate them. 

Former slaves who made it to the British lines in St. Augustine included Robin, who arrived with a cavalry unit from Charleston and enlisted as a soldier. 

Two more people, Katy and Cyrus, were freed by Colonel Thomas Brown, commander of the East Florida Rangers. Another man named Hector, who fought for the British in Charleston, came to St. Augustine with his wife, Rein. 

They became free employees of the Swiss settler Francis Philip Fatio and remained in Florida when it passed to Spanish rule at the end of the Revolution.