Intimate direct democracy : Fort Mose, the great dismal swamp, and the human quest for freedom
Publication Information
Atlanta, Georgia : On Our Own Authority! Publishing, [2022]
Physical Description
178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Summary
"From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reach of oppressive settler-colonialism and the institution of slavery. On the peripheries of empire, these freedom-seeking maroons established their own autonomous, ethnically diverse, and intimately democratic communities of resistance."----Provided by publisher.
Subjects
- African Americans > Florida > Saint Augustine.
- African Americans > Florida > Saint Augustine > History > 18th century.
- Free African Americans > Florida > Saint Augustine > History > 18th century.
- Fugitive slaves > Florida > Saint Augustine > History > 18th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life > Florida > Saint Augustine.
- Fort Mose Site (Fla.) > History.
- Saint Augustine (Fla.) > History > 18th century.
- Florida > History > Spanish colony, 1565-1763.