"How Black Seminoles Found Freedom From Slavery" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 May 2019 1:11 p.m. PST |
…in Florida. "Black Seminoles were enslaved Africans and African Americans who, beginning in the late 17th century fled plantations in the southern American colonies and joined with the newly-formed Seminole tribe in Spanish-owned Florida. From the late 1690s until Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821, thousands of Native Americans and runaway slaves fled what is now the southeastern United States, heading not to the north, but rather to the relatively open promise of the Florida peninsula. African people who escaped slavery were called Maroons in the American colonies, a word derived from the Spanish word "cimmaron" meaning runaway or wild one. The Maroons who arrived in Florida and settled with the Seminoles were called a variety of things, including Black Seminoles or Seminole Maroons or Seminole Freedmen. The Seminoles gave them the tribal name of Estelusti, a Muskogee word for black…."
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| Rudysnelson | 08 May 2019 6:34 p.m. PST |
Maroons did fight with Upper Creek Muskogee during the War of 1812. Some but not as many fought with the Lower Creek. |
| Tango01 | 09 May 2019 12:29 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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