...During the War of 1812, as during the American Revolution, the British borrowed Spanish strategies and deliberately encouraged slaves of the enemy to desert plantations, enlist in royal military service, and be emancipated... The Spanish subject Zephaniah Kingsley, who had a large plantation on Fort George Island, Florida, later wrote, "Who was so unlucky as to see, on Cumberland Island, last war, the magical transformation of his own negroes, whom he left in the field but a few hours before, into regular soldiers, of good discipline and appearance." (Landers: Atlantic Creoles)