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  • The Fort at Prospect Bluff (2017)
  • Short | 29 min | Documentary, Short
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The Fort at Prospect Bluff (2017)
Short | 29 min | Documentary, Short
The deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired on the Fort at Prospect Bluff on July 27, 1816, setting off a gunpowder magazine in an explosion felt more than 100 miles away. It destroyed the largest free Black colony in North ...See moreThe deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired on the Fort at Prospect Bluff on July 27, 1816, setting off a gunpowder magazine in an explosion felt more than 100 miles away. It destroyed the largest free Black colony in North America, killing more than 270 men, women, and children who had gone to the isolated fort to escape slavery and live in freedom. The Fort at Prospect Bluff is their story. It is told with respect and reverence, by historians and descendants, as well as the caretakers of the site itself. From the first attempts to establish an outpost on Florida's Apalachicola River to supply refugee Red Stick Creek Indians, to British efforts to bring freedom to 1,000 or more enslaved Africans, it is a story that America has forgotten. And yet, it is true and powerful. Learn of a remarkable fight for freedom more than forty years before the Civil War, a fight for the death when escaped slaves chose death before surrender in a desperate battle to live free or die. This is the story of what white officials of the time called "the Negro Fort." See less
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Rachael Conrad
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Dale Cox (written by)
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Feb 24, 2017 (United States)

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