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from the slavers.

In 1663, Spanish documents began referring to a people called the "Yamasis", the refugees from Ocute and the other chiefdoms. The Yamasis were living in five villages along the Atlantic Ocean coast near the border of Georgia and South Carolina. This was the beginning of loosely-organized bands of refugees from several Indian tribes that the British settlers would call Yamasee.

European colonization

Spanish contact

Spain established the town of St. Augustine, Florida

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