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Negro Fort. Apalachicola National Forest, Sumatra, Florida. 1816.
By 1816, more than 300 black warriors were protecting upwards of a thousand black refugees at the fort in Spanish Florida, creating a beacon for runaways and drawing the wrath of Andrew Jackson. |
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