The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World

Index

339 Index Abolition, 8, 13, 29, 55, 110–13, 257 Accommodation, 38, 81–83, 216 Adams, John Quincy, 90, 96, 130, 243, 246 Adams-Onís Treaty (1819), 247 African Diaspora, 4–6, 9, 27, 165 Afro-Christianity, 12, 168 Agency, 9, 35, 97, 101, 238, 258 Agriculture, 32, 125, 133, 164–65, 177, 258 Alabama, 13, 38, 43, 56, 77, 150, 217, 251 Ambrister, Robert, 237–38, 242–44, 246–47 Amelia Island, 35–36 Amelung, Captain Ferdinand, 180, 221–22 American annexation of Florida, 2, 3, 5, 96, 230–31, 242, 247–48 American Revolution, 12, 14–17, 33, 54, 151 Andros Island (Bahamas), 119, 252 Angola (Central African kingdom), 198; influence on Palmares, 131–32, 152, 166 Angola (Florida maroon community), 232–33, 237–38, 245–46, 250–52 Anti-slavery: campaigners for, 3, 4; hemispheric maroons’ understanding of, 111–14, 185, 212; impact on slave resistance, 8; movement, 24, 154; Native Americans’ exposure to, 63, 79, 83–85; Nicolls’s ideology, 3, 8, 12, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 30, 35, 41, 51, 54, 115–16, 195, 206, 211, 257; Prospect Bluff as experiment in, 27, 32, 47, 52, 56, 73, 76, 84, 97, 100–101, 103, 236–37; Prospect Bluff maroons’ understanding of, 1, 9, 52, 56, 61, 64, 76, 106, 109–12, 114, 118–20, 123, 127–28, 214, 253, 256 Apalachicola National Forest, 134 Apalachicola River: American control of, 251; British activity on, 40, 43, 46, 58, 86, 88, 107–8, 220; environment, 1, 115, 125, 130, 133–34, 137, 176, 224; Forbes and Company store on, 77, 148; maroon plantations along, 177; mouth of, 225, 237; Native Americans on, 48, 89, 90; and Prospect Bluff, 2, 42, 186, 235, 244, 255; strategic importance of, 49, 67, 146; transport along, 222–23, 241 Apodaca, Governor C. G. (Cuba), 46, 57, 85 Arbuthnot, Alexander, 239, 242–44, 246–47 Armstrong, John, 69–70 Article 9, Treaty of Ghent, 88, 90, 96, 231 Ashley, Mary, 118–19, 129, 163, 195, 201, 226, 251 Atlantic borderlands, 34–35, 50–51, 60, 149, 154, 205 Atlantic world, 9, 12, 24, 33–35, 40, 55, 148, 154, 164, 167, 170, 183, 196, 204, 206, 208, 212–13, 232, 255–57, 259–60 Bahamas, 25, 27, 29, 39, 45, 94, 119, 129, 168–70, 179, 195, 236–38, 252 Barnard, Captain, 235 Bassett, Sailing Master James, 223, 227 Bathurst, Lord, 40, 90, 236 Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 39, 218 Bermuda, 17–18, 116–17, 143, 150, 183, 215 Big Warrior, 79–81 Black Caribs, 113, 191 Blackshear, General David, 43, 86–87 Black soldiers, 12, 15, 22, 28, 35–36, 54, 62, 65, 70, 74, 87, 104, 106, 124–25, 144, 151, 188, 244 Blount, William, 68 Borderlands, 34–35 Bowlegs, Chief (Seminole), 92, 192, 202, 233, 239–40, 242–43 Brazil, 100, 131, 137–38, 141, 145, 152, 164, 166, 175, 184, 188, 190–91, 198 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 253 340  Index British Empire: Cochrane’s Proclamation and, 18; Nicolls’s role in, 22; Nicolls’s understanding of, 1, 8, 20, 23–25, 53, 97, 106, 115–16, 123, 128, 211, 253, 256–57; as political unit, 15, 110, 117, 120, 125, 252, 254; Prospect Bluff maroons as full subjects of, 9, 26–27, 111, 124, 195, 254, 257; Prospect Bluff maroons’ understanding of, 52, 61, 64, 114, 119, 206, 209 British subjects: claims by former residents of Prospect Bluff in Cuba to be, 119, 251; claims by refugees in Bahamas to be, 119–20, 252; Cochrane’s Proclamation and offer of status as, 54; employees of Forbes and Company as, 51; Jamaican maroons’ status as, 122; Nicolls’s explanation of rights possessed by, 28, 56, 118, 123, 125, 256–57; Prospect Bluff maroons and their claim to status of, 8, 54–55, 97, 101, 118, 124, 163, 167, 204–5, 212, 214, 258; Prospect Bluff maroons and their understanding of rights possessed by, 8–9, 106, 126–28, 172, 181–82, 185, 195–96, 201–2, 208–9, 216, 226, 231, 238, 249, 258–59 Buraco de Tatú, 131, 145, 152, 162, 176, 184, 191 Calhoun, John C., 14, 228, 241, 246, 249–50 Cameron, Governor (Bahamas), 39–40, 46, 236 Canada, 17, 67, 94, 110, 126 Cappachamico, 41, 80, 83, 91 Caribbean: British, 15–16, 20, 28–29, 112, 149, 154, 236; French, 149, 205; as general region, 10, 15, 23, 40, 137–38, 153, 175, 232; Revolutionary , 16–17, 22, 31, 33...