The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & the Battle of Negro Fort - Softcover

Cox, Dale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578634627 ISBN 13: 9780578634623

Publisher: Old Kitchen Media, 2020

Synopsis

The deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired at the "Negro Fort" at Prospect Bluff on Florida's Apalachicola River on July 27, 1816. The resulting explosion killed more than 270 men, women, and children, and destroyed the largest free black settlement in North America. The Fort at Prospect Bluff is a remarkable look at this shocking episode of American history. The author digs deep into the letters, documents, eyewitness accounts, and military reports to tell the story with more depth and clarity than ever before. This book tells an amazing story of Native Americans fighting to preserve their lands, Maroons (escaped slaves) making a desperate stand to protect their freedom, U.S. and British troops confronting each other during the War of 1812, and a shocking attack and its bloody aftermath. This is the story of an Underground Railroad that ran south to Spanish Florida and eventually to Trinidad, the Bahamas, and for a few even to Newfoundland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Old Kitchen Media
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578634627
• ISBN 13: 9780578634623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Conrad Rachael