KEY West, Fl. ... Slave History

[5fish]

I WAs looking at the Freeman's Bureau map and notice that Key West, Fl. was a location of one of their offices. I thought that was an odd place for one of their offices. I dug a little and found some interesting with slavery and the Keys...

Here is a history... Two slave ships shipwreck off Keys in the 1820's... A lot of free slaves lived in the keys...

http://www.keyshistory.org/blackhistory.html

Here one story in 1860, a slave ship was captured by us and brought to Key West...

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=119106&page=1

Here is an interesting take and is related to the 1860 captured slave ship. The Africans from that ship were not considered slaves but refugees and there is a graveyard site in Key West mark as historical for being the only one of its kind in America...

http://www.fla-keys.com/news/article/8695/

African American Landmark sites in the Keys....

http://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/t...rican-historic-sites-in-key-west-florida.html

I never found the answer to my original question about why there was a Freemen Bureau office in Key West because from what I can tell the X slave population of Monroe County was not that big at all and most of Monroe county is on the mainland not in the keys...