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      Cover image for The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community
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      The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community

      Matthew J. Clavin

      The 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…

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

      Matthew J. Clavin

      The 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…

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      Symbols of Freedom

      Matthew J. Clavin

      "In the early United States, the language and symbols of American freedom inspired enslaved people and their allies to wage a real and revolutionary war against slavery"--

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      Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

      Matthew J. Clavin

      This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of…

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      Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers

      Matthew J. Clavin

      Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom…

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