Looking for Angola is a multidisciplinary research project, aimed at discovering the location of “Angola,” a maroon community that thrived on Florida’s southwest coast from 1812-1821. It was comprised of formerly enslaved Africans, free Blacks, Red Stick Creek and Seminole Indians. In 1821, Lower Creek Indians and bounty hunters raided the Angola Settlement. Some survivors of the raid escaped south along the Florida coast to Cape Florida, where they boarded canoes and wreckers, heading for safety and freedom in The Bahamas…
Looking for Angola: The Search for an 1800’s Black Settlement
VIDEO GALLERY
See the Looking for Angola team in action! Watch tv show interviews and other videos about our mission and events!
READING ROOM
Here you can review the historical documents that the LFA scholars.
INTERVIEWS
Enjoy reading about what each team member hopes to contribute to the search for Angola!
PHOTO GALLERY
View amazing photographs from the field and events!
Archaeology lab inspired by Angola
I couldn’t help but smile while listening to the speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony of New College of Florida’s public archaeology lab. And I suspect the ancestors of an 1800s settlement called Angola smiled along with me. After all, their lives and legacies were at stake. A few flashbacks on that fine occasion reminded me […]
Story of early Florida black settlement emerging
Miami Herald Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 FLORIDA JOURNAL Story of early Florida black settlement emerging A forgotten 19th century black settlement in mid-Florida is reemerging as a compelling story. Posted on Tue, Oct. 16, 2007 BY AUDRA D.S. BURCH aburch@MiamiHerald.com CHARLES TRAINOR JR/MIAMI HERALD STAFF Vicki Oldham stands next to a Civil War era […]
9/11 TECH TOOL USED IN SEARCH FOR ANGOLA
9/11 TECH TOOL USED IN SEARCH FOR ANGOLAHigh tech equipment used to assess underground damage near the World Trade Center site after 9/11 will now assist archaeologists in the search for artifacts of an 1800’s slave settlement near Tampa Bay known as Angola. Using a method called Radar Tomography (RT), St. Petersburg-based Witten Technologies will […]
January 28, 2006-New Records Have Been Added to the Africana Heritage Database!
January 28, 2006 – New Records Have Been Added to the Africana Heritage Database! New Records, Week Ending December 4, 2005 The following records have been added to the Africana Heritage Project database: Many thanks to Bill Davison for the following Records: Boyles, William. Appraisement, Marion County, WV Brice, Benjamin. Indenture of Sal to Rachel Brice Crawford, […]