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19 Αυγ 2019 · A year after the Battle of New Orleans, runaway slaves armed by the British occupied a stockade in Spanish Florida. The so called “Negro Fort” became a mecca for other fugitives from Southern plantations. In 1816, the U.S. Army arrived to crush the settlement.
In February 1816, Colonel Powell, Captain Daniel Johnston, and John McGaskey were prospecting land in the Mississippi Territory, which the United States had acquired in the Treaty of Fort Jackson but which the Creeks refused to abandon. Suddenly, shots rang out, and in an instant, Johnston and McGaskey were dead.
10 Σεπ 2019 · The new book The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise And Fall Of A Fugitive Slave Community tells the dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida.
In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves.
27 Ιουλ 2016 · Within two years of the attack on Negro Fort, American troops had flooded the peninsula, in what General Jackson called a “savage and Negro” war. His tactics in the Seminole Wars were notoriously ruthless , even by early 1800s standards.
10 Σεπ 2019 · The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.
21 Μαΐ 2021 · In July 1816, American troops and their Creek allies launched a combined naval and ground force attack on ‘Negro Fort,’ a heavily armed citadel which stood atop a steep bluff overlooking the Apalac...
