The 1817 Fort Blount Massacre: A Forgotten Slave Rebellion

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering — Fexingo History · Aug 6, 2026 · 7m · transcript

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…