The Battle of Negro Fort : The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community /

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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 independ...

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Autor principal: Clavin, Matthew J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Florida-History-To 1821.
Negro Fort, Battle of, Fla., 1816.
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
Andrew Jackson.
Army.
Bahamas.
Battle of New Orleans.
Benjamin Hawkins.
Bowlegs.
Choctaws.
Creek Indians.
Creeks.
Duncan Clinch.
Edmund Gaines.
Edward Nicolls.
Florida.
George Woodbine.
John Brown.
Joshua Giddings.
Native Americans.
Navy.
Nero.
Prospect Bluff.
Red Sticks.
Seminole War.
Seminoles.
Slave Power.
War of 1812.
William Jay.
William Lloyd Garrison.
William McIntosh.
congressional investigation.
expansion.
interracial alliance.
maroon.
maroons.
popular history.
slavery.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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