Angola, Florida

"[7] Spanish Florida was a haven for escaped slaves and for Native Americans deprived of their traditional lands during colonial times and in the first decades of U.S. independence.

Fort Mose was the first and smallest autonomous black community but it was abandoned in 1763 after the Spanish cessation of Florida in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.

"[2]: 73  He described it as "one of the most significant historical sites in Florida and perhaps the U.S."[2]: 71 None of these were settled as a group, as white colonies were; refugees gradually accumulated over many years until a community of several hundred existed.

[12] When Andrew Jackson became Florida's de facto territorial governor in 1821, he decided that Angola would need to be destroyed and its runaway slave populace returned to bondage.

[13] "Acting in direct defiance of Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, Jackson's first order of business was to send his Creek allies on a search and destroy mission against Angola",[1]: 250  which was "burned to the ground".

[14] A small number joined the Red Sticks Indians and formed a community called Minatti at the headwaters of the Peace River near Lake Hancock.