I definitely feel like it should not have taken my going down a rabbithole about historical ammunition explosion incidents to learn about this one,
the destruction of a Florida fort in 1816 by the US government, resulting in 334 casualties, mostly escaped enslaved people and Native families there
I feel like this absolutely should’ve come up in at least one of the American history classes I took in high school or college.
I’ve never heard about any of this (content warning: it’s absolutely horrible, but worth learning about historical atrocities by the US) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_F...
Normally my Wikipedia rabbitholes are delightful and relaxing, I didn’t expect this one to get so dark.
Why was I reading about ammunition incidents? Well I was inspired to learn more about boats with ammunition by this bsky.app/profile/gari...
