Bowlegs Town, 1818: Black maroons under Nero were the main target (Suwannee River, April 1818)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1818 · Places: Florida
SUMMARYBowlegs Town, 1818: Black maroons under Nero were the main target (Suwannee River, April 1818) [Connections: Tallahassee & Orlando, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDMaroons who escaped the destruction of the Prospect Bluff fort had gathered at Bowlegs Town on the Suwannee River "under a Black Seminole leader named Nero" and "had reorganized along their former British military lines." Wikipedia states that "this free Black resistance was the main target of the attack." After a brief skirmish with maroons outside the town, Jackson occupied the village
PATTERNThe same 1818 campaign that burned the Tallahassee towns aimed at a Black Seminole town in north Florida: Native and Black towns were one target
LENS (WW9)Jackson's war did not separate "Indian" from "negro"; it hunted both as one people
OPENThe number of Black fighters at Bowlegs Town and Nero's later fate are not on the page; Jackson's own dispatches on the Suwannee need reading