What were "slaves" fleeing from?
#SlaveBreeding
#ChattelSlavery
#ThisIsAmerica
Ever wonder why the #Warof1812 has such a genetic name? Because it was the #SlaveRefugeWar fought north to destroy #Canada and the #UndergroundRailroad, and south to take #NewOrleans, #Florida & eventually the islands.
Horne considers 1776 & 1787 counter revolutionary but is kinder to Articles of Confederation - which might be stopgap instrument for states to refer to in organizing something "more like Canada or Australia" among whichever are willing now.
#SlaveRefugeWar of 1812 fails but sadly removed #Tecumseh.
"Spanish Florida offered freedom to fugitive slaves from the Southern Colonies; successive governors in the colony had issued proclamations offering freedom for fugitive slaves in Florida in exchange for converting to Catholicism and serving for a period in the colonial militia." #SlaveRefugeWar
