Episodes

February 16, 2026

Episode 1: A Multiracial World

As white southerners increasingly sought more land to expand the system of plantation slavery across the southern frontier, violence between whites and Indigenous populations intensified in the decades following American Independence. In the borderland of Spanish Florida, a growing number of displaced Native Americans and escaped enslaved people found a multiracial world that offered the perfect conditions for the emergence of the so-called "Negro Fort."

Guests: Matthew Clavin, Ph.D., Jane Landers, Ph.D., Nathaniel Millett, Ph.D., F. Evan Nooe, PhD.