Secrets of the Dead special about the history of the first and largely key Spanish colony in North America, the town of St. Augustine, Florida. Although established even before Jamestown, its symbolic key place in U.S. history as the first melting pot in North America had sadly been ignored and largely forgotten over time by most history books that subscribe to the British narrative about the creation of America. While enormous amounts of blood were spilled over the centuries over who gets to rule Florida between Spain, England and later the U.S., Florida had always been a place where cultures and races meet and mix as well as the first free territory for former slaves in the North American south before, first the British, and later the U.S. took it over.