“After reading a short passage from Canter Brown Jr.’s book, “Florida’s Peace River Frontier,” Vickie Oldham was so startled she had to read the passage again. And then again. And again.
“I wanted to commit it to memory,” she says.
Oldham, who grew up in southwest Florida, had always been a student of the area’s African-American history, but Brown’s book, written in 1991, taught her something she didn’t know — that in 1812 escaped slaves and their descendants had founded a thriving settlement somewhere along the Manatee River near what’s now Bradenton.”
Read more about “Looking for Angola” in a 2016 article from Florida Trend:
https://www.floridatrend.com/article/19604/lost-and-found-a-haven-for-former-slaves
