Forty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed "all men are created equal," the United States launched an illegal invasion on foreign soil to eliminate "the negro fort," destroying the largest community of free runaway enslaved people and Native Americans that had existed before or since in the history of the United States.
Hosts: Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster.
Featuring: Matthew Clavin, Jane Landers, Nathaniel Millett, and F. Evan Nooe.
Voice Actors: Kevin Garcia, Brooks Nuzum, Maddy Poston, and Richard Weber.
Music by Pixabay artists.
Researched, Written, and Edited by Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster.
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The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast is produced by UCF graduate history students Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster and hosted by the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research, with additional support from a gift that was made as an extension of the American Historical Association's Sinclair Workshops for Historical Podcasting.
Further Reading:
Clavin, Matthew. The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community. NYU Press, 2019.
Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Millett, Nathaniel. The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. University Press of Florida, 2013.
Nooe, F. Evan. Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South. University of Alabama Press, 2024.
Nora, Pierre. "Between History and Memory." In Realms of Memory, The Construction of the French Past Volume I: Conflicts and Divisions, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Columbia University Press, 1996.
Primary Sources:
"Petition of Mary Brown to the Speaker and Representatives in General Assembly [of Georgia]," 1797, Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia, https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc016?canvas=0&x=400&y=400&w=1845.
Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, Savannah, GA, April 25, 1797.
Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, Augusta, GA, April 29, 1797.
Moser, Harold D., and Sharon Macpherson. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1804-1813. University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Alexander Cochrane, "Proclamation: A British Appeal to American Slaves," Bermuda, April 2, 1814, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/alexander-cochrane-proclamation.
Andrew Jackson to Edward P. Gaines, April 8, 1816, Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Volume II (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1926), 239.
Andrew Jackson to Mauricio de Zuñiga, April 23, 1816, Spanish Governor of West Florida, Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Volume II, 241.
