USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Negro Fort, near the former British Fort Gadsden, was established after the War of 1812, when the British Royal Marines were pushed out of Georgia and settled along the Spanish side of the Apalachicola River. Initially, the fort and the surrounding area was a mix of British, African-Americans, and Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout his work, The Battle of the Negro Fort, Matthew Clavin links the fort’s destruction to the early beginnings of a southern Slave Power as he centers the rise and fall of the “Negro Fort” within the national struggle over slavery and freedom.

Detailed explanation-3: -The fort, built between 1814 and 1815 under the direction of the British Royal Marines, is also designated a British Post National Landmark. It is the only national landmark protected by the U.S. Forest Service in the southeastern United States.