The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community FOR042000 ISBN10: 0816511187

ISBN10: 0816511187

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The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community FOR042000 ISBN10: 0816511187The 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. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black