1793-Aug
1793-Aug: Following the commissioners’ offer of freedom, approximately 100,000 former slaves retreated to the natural mountain fastnesses of the interior to …
1793-Aug: Following the commissioners’ offer of freedom, approximately 100,000 former slaves retreated to the natural mountain fastnesses of the interior to establish an independent republic. These groups lived off the land and wild cattle, successfully resisting efforts to dislodge them from their rocky fortresses.
Source · p. 143
Edwards, Historical Survey, 143