The Battle of Negro Fort : the rise and fall of a fugitive slave community /
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 indepen...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- War and resistance
- The British post on Prospect Bluff
- A free black community
- Fighting to the death
- The battle continues
- Slavery or freedom.