The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community
Matthew J. Clavin
NYU Press
Clavin's dramatic recounting of a US army-navy contingent launching a brutal attack on Negro Fort in Spanish Florida after the War of 1812. The attack on hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and Black rebels culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort's inhabitants, accelerating America's transformation into a white republic.