Looking for Angola: The Search for Traces of a Maroon Community on Florida's Southwest Coast
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Looking for Angola: The Search for Traces of a Maroon Community on Florida's Southwest Coast
 toniheadr
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Posted: 14 Feb 2006 10:10PM GMT |
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Hi Everyone,
It's Toni Carrier from the USF Africana Heritage Project. I'd like to let you know about the Looking for Angola project and invite you to visit the website.
Looking for Angola is a multidisciplinary research project, aimed at discovering the location “Angola,†a maroon community that thrived on Florida's southwest coast from 1812-1821. It was comprised of formerly enslaved Africans and African-Americans and Red Stick Creek and Seminole Indians.
In 1821, Lower Creek Indians and bounty hunters raided the Angola settlement. Some survivors of the raid escaped south along the Florida coast to Cape Florida, where they boarded canoes and wreckers, heading for safety and freedom in The Bahamas.
According to Rosalyn Howard’s research, published in her book Black Seminoles in the Bahamas, this was the same year that Black Seminoles established a settlement on Andros Island called Red Bays where a descendant population of these original inhabitants lives today. The ongoing excavations will likely provide a direct link of the Angola exiles to today’s population in Red Bays.
The Looking for Angola research team includes project director Vickie Oldham, historian Canter Brown, Jr. (Florida A&M University), anthropologist Rosalyn Howard (University of Central Florida) historical archaeologist Uzi Baram (New College of Florida), archaeologist Bill Burger, archaeologist Terrance Weik (University of South Carolina), and Sarasota educator/historian Louis Robinson.
The team is working to combine decades of research in the effort to uncover evidence about this little known story missing from the pages of American history. The saga of Angola highlights Florida’s continuing role as a beacon of freedom for refugees from slavery in the American South. The historical archaeology of the settlement will shed light on matters of national and international importance.
You can follow the story in words and pictures at:
http://www.africanaheritage.com/lookingforangola.asp
We hope you will enjoy learning more about this important story that was almost lost to history.
The USF Africana Heritage Project is, and always will be, 100% free and not for profit.
Best!
Toni
www.africanaheritage.com
toni@africanaheritage.com
It's Toni Carrier from the USF Africana Heritage Project. I'd like to let you know about the Looking for Angola project and invite you to visit the website.
Looking for Angola is a multidisciplinary research project, aimed at discovering the location “Angola,†a maroon community that thrived on Florida's southwest coast from 1812-1821. It was comprised of formerly enslaved Africans and African-Americans and Red Stick Creek and Seminole Indians.
In 1821, Lower Creek Indians and bounty hunters raided the Angola settlement. Some survivors of the raid escaped south along the Florida coast to Cape Florida, where they boarded canoes and wreckers, heading for safety and freedom in The Bahamas.
According to Rosalyn Howard’s research, published in her book Black Seminoles in the Bahamas, this was the same year that Black Seminoles established a settlement on Andros Island called Red Bays where a descendant population of these original inhabitants lives today. The ongoing excavations will likely provide a direct link of the Angola exiles to today’s population in Red Bays.
The Looking for Angola research team includes project director Vickie Oldham, historian Canter Brown, Jr. (Florida A&M University), anthropologist Rosalyn Howard (University of Central Florida) historical archaeologist Uzi Baram (New College of Florida), archaeologist Bill Burger, archaeologist Terrance Weik (University of South Carolina), and Sarasota educator/historian Louis Robinson.
The team is working to combine decades of research in the effort to uncover evidence about this little known story missing from the pages of American history. The saga of Angola highlights Florida’s continuing role as a beacon of freedom for refugees from slavery in the American South. The historical archaeology of the settlement will shed light on matters of national and international importance.
You can follow the story in words and pictures at:
http://www.africanaheritage.com/lookingforangola.asp
We hope you will enjoy learning more about this important story that was almost lost to history.
The USF Africana Heritage Project is, and always will be, 100% free and not for profit.
Best!
Toni
www.africanaheritage.com
toni@africanaheritage.com