Research Catalog

Title

The Black Seminoles : history of a freedom-seeking people / Kenneth W. Porter ; revised and edited by Alcione M. Amos and Thomas P. Senter.

Author

Porter, Kenneth Wiggins, 1905-1981

Publication

• Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [1996]
• ©1996

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Details

Additional Authors

• Amos, Alcione M.
• Senter, Thomas P.

Description

xi, 284 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This Story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom. Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for decades on reciprocal respect and affection). Kenneth Porter traces their fortunes and exploits as they moved across the country and attempted to live first beyond the law, then as loyal servants of it. He examines the Black Seminole role in the bloody Second Seminole War, when John Horse and his men distinguished themselves as fierce warriors, and their forced removal to the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the 1840s, where John's leadership ability emerged. The account includes the Black Seminole exodus in the 1850s to Mexico, their service as border troops for the Mexican government, and their return to Texas in the 1870s, where many of the men scouted for the U.S. Army. A powerful and stirring story, The Black Seminoles will appeal especially to readers interested in black history, Indian history, Florida history, and U.S. military history" --Front flap.

Subject

• Black Seminoles > History
• Black Seminoles > Government relations
• Black Seminoles > Social conditions
• Seminole Indians > African influences
• African Americans > Relations with Indians
• Black Seminoles
• Geschichte
• Séminoles (Indiens) > Histoire
• Séminoles (Indiens) > Relations avec l'État
• Séminoles (Indiens) > Conditions sociales
• Noirs américains > Relations avec les Indiens
• United States, Florida > Native races
• United States, Florida > Minorities
• United States, Texas > Native races
• United States, Oklahoma > Native races
• Mexico > Native races
• United States, Louisiana > Native races
• Schwärze
• Seminolen

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-271) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. War and Peace, Florida, 1812-1842. 1. Their Best Soldiers Are Black. 2. This Savage and Black War. 3. The Gathering Storm. 4. From Dade's Massacre to the Siege of Camp Izard. 5. General Scott, Governor Call, and the Great Wahoo. 6. There Is No Peace. 7. Okeechobee! 8. From Suspicion to Responsibility -- pt. 2. The Lean Years, Indian Territory, 1842-1850. 9. Seven Lean Years. 10. The Exodus to Mexico -- pt. 3. The Sanctuary, Mexico, 1850-1870. 11. This Land Was Bought with Blood. 12. Perils on the Border. 13. Adrift in the Laguna -- pt. 4. The Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, Texas, 1870-1914. 14. Black Watch on the Rio Grande. 15. Blood on the Saddle. 16. The End of the Scouts -- pt. 5. Father of His People, Mexico, 1876-1882. 17. Farewell to John Horse.

ISBN

• 0813014514
• 9780813014517
• 9780813044880
• 081304488X
• 0813023254
• 9780813023250

LCCN

96011055

OCLC

• ocm34320717
• 34320717
• SCSB-9519366

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library