Africans and Seminoles; From removal to emancipation

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Publisher
Greenwood Press
Metadata
ISBN
0837195292
Collection
Part of Stetson Kennedy Library
Year
1977
Description

[from the preface] "From the 18th century to the present, the African has played a significant role in the history of the Seminole Indians. Yet the relationship between the two groups has only been explored in detail for the years of the First and second Seminole Wars... This present work carries the study forward through the next major historical phase, removal to the West and the years leading up to the Civil War,  These years deserve close attention, for during this period the Africans emerged as a strong shaping force in the political and social destiny of the Seminoles in the West, playing significant roles in the establishment of separate lands for the Seminoles and of a basis for Seminole action during the Civil War..."