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Subject(s)

• Seminole Indians—History [Browse]
• Black Seminoles—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Relations with Indians [Browse]
• Slavery—Indian Territory [Browse]
• Slaveholders—Indian Territory [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Summary note

• This narrative recounts the history of peoples of African descent among the Seminoles from the mid-1830s to the end of the Civil War.
• Because Seminoles held slaves in a confusing system that was markedly dissimilar to institutionalized slavery, the federal government was challenged to identify which blacks in Florida were free and which were not. The two societies were so closely linked that, when the government implemented its program of removal, Seminoles and African Americans were transported to Oklahoma together.
• However, once on their new lands Seminoles and blacks fell into strife with Creeks, Cherokees, and Arkansans. These disputes drove a wedge between the Seminoles and their black allies. Until the Civil War, blacks were hounded by slave claims that had followed them from the east and by raids of Creeks and white slavers from Arkansas. Many blacks were captured and sold. Others fled from Indian Territory and settled in Mexico. Book jacket.

Notes

Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977, in series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 32.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-261) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 2 Black Men and War Policy 15
• 3 The Emigrants 36
• 4 Fear of the Creeks 68
• 5 A Breakdown in Relations 98
• 6 Return to Bondage 119
• 7 Bolt for Freedom 138
• 8 The Last Slave Controversies 162
• 9 Civil War and Emancipation 180.

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ISBN

1578063604 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001045329

OCLC

47443952

RCP

H - S

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