The 1817 Fort Blount Massacre: A Forgotten Slave Rebellion

In 1817, as the Second Seminole War smoldered in Spanish Florida, a fugitive slave named Nero led a desperate uprising at Fort Blount on the Apalachicola River. The fort, built by the British and occupied by a multiracial community of maroons and Seminoles, was attacked by a United States force under Colonel Duncan Clinch. Nero's rebellion was crushed, the fort destroyed, and the survivors sold back into slavery. This episode follows Nero's path from a Georgia plantation to the frontier, the geopolitics of the seminole wars, and the brutal reprisal that erased the fort from history. It is a story of resistance, tragedy, and the long reach of slavery into America's borderlands. #FortBlount #Nero #SeminoleWars #Maroons #ApalachicolaRiver #SpanishFlorida #DuncanClinch #SlaveRebellion #SecondSeminoleWar #1817 #Georgia #FugitiveSlaves #NegroFort #Frontier #Slavery #Resistance #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo