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Manatee Mineral Springs Park 1312 2nd Avenue East Bradenton, FL, Bradenton, FL, United StatesArchaeological Excavations confirmed the location of the early 19th-century maroon community of Angola at the current site of Manatee Mineral Springs Park in Bradenton, Florida. The community-based archaeology led to the cultural heritage festival celebrating the survivors of the 1821 slave raid Angola who fled from Manatee Springs to Red Bays, The Bahamas; the descendants […]