Freedom on the border : the Seminole Maroons in Florida : the Indian territory, Coahuila, and Texas

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Freedom on the border : the Seminole Maroons in Florida : the Indian territory, Coahuila, and Texas

Title remainder

the Seminole Maroons in Florida : the Indian territory, Coahuila, and Texas

Statement of responsibility

Kevin Mulroy

Creator

• Mulroy, Kevin

Subject

• Noirs -- États-Unis -- Influence indienne
• Séminole (Indiens) -- Histoire
• History
• African Americans -- Relations with Indians
• Séminole (Indiens) -- Influence africaine
• Black Seminoles -- History
• Seminole Indians -- History
• Blacks -- Relations with Indians
• Seminole Indians -- African influences

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Under the brilliant leadership of the charismatic John Horse, a band of black runaways, in alliance with Seminole Indians under Wild Cat, migrated from the Indian Territory to northern Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century to escape from slavery. These maroons subsequently provided soldiers for Mexico's frontier defense and later served the United States Army as the renowned Seminole Negro Indian Scouts. This is the story of the maroons' ethnogenesis in Florida, their removal to the West, their role in the Texas Indian Wars, and the fate of their long quest for freedom and self-determination along both sides of the Rio Grande. Their tale is a rich and colorful one, and one of epic proportions, stretching from the swamps of the Southeast to the desert Southwest. The maroons' history of African origins, plantation slavery, European and Indian associations, Florida wars, and forced removal culminated in a Mexican borderlands mosaic incorporating slave hunters, corrupt Indian agents, Texas filibusters, Mexican revolutionaries, French invaders, Apache and Comanche raiders, frontier outlaws and lawmen, and Buffalo Soldiers. What emerges is a saga of enslavement, flight, exile, and ultimately freedom

Cataloging source

• DLC
• DLC

Dewey number

975.9/004973

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E99.S28

LC item number

M84 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography