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Yellow Fever destroying Florida

'Ironically, and certainly unknown to them, the anti-slavery colonists had chosen an island that lay at the heart of the region where the Atlantic slave trade had begun.'

'The Bolano expedition consisted largely of pioneers of the European Enlightenment. They imagined themselves sailing far away from a troubled England and toward a bright future that would include both prosperous Englishmen and prosperous Africans.