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POP UP MUSEUMS
FLORIDA SCHOOLS
FLASHPOINT:
Compromise, Conflict, and the Civil War
This exhibit shares the story of the last illegal slave ships captured by the US Navy and brought into Key West, Florida, at the brink of the Civil War in 1860.


This project is sponsored in part by
the Department of State,
Division of Historical Resources,
and the State of Florida.
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