I am currently taking a History of Florida course and my professor has assigned me the question "What is another name of the maroon settlement of Poplar Bluff" I have been unable to find any information about this maroon community other than a town in Missouri being named the same. Any context into a possible other name of this community or its history as a freed slave settlement would be greatly appreciated.
Since this is a question for research clarification, I'll keep this short... What he meant to ask was "What is another name of the maroon settlement of Prospect Bluff?", not Poplar Bluff.
Prospect Bluff was a maroon community in Spanish Florida comprised of freemen, self-emancipated (runaway) enslaved Africans, and Natives (namely the Choctaw but some other bands as well). They had a certain british built that was renamed for the inhabitants of that structure, and it's that term that your prof. is getting at, and that structure was the site of a historic event between two seperate forces, one being the folks of Prospect Bluffs in Spanish Florida and the other being Andrew Jackson and his American troops. I think anyone can guess what happened next, but suffice to say it was not a very cool thing for America to have done. One more clue, it happened July 27 1816.
I think that's enough to get ya going - just let me know if you need more clarification or resources on Prospect Bluff and the major historic event that occured in the early 1800s there.
E to remove confusing verbiage.