The Battle of Negro Fort : : The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community / / Matthew J. Clavin.
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 c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 War and Resistance
- 2 The British Post on Prospect Bluff
- 3 A Free Black Community
- 4 Fighting to the Death
- 5 The Battle Continues
- 6 Slavery or Freedom
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author