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The black Seminole culture that took shape after 1800 was a dynamic mixture of African, Native American, Spanish, and slave traditions. Adopting certain practices of the Native Americans, maroons wore Seminole clothing and ate the same foodstuffs prepared the same way: they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour ...
The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between the United States and groups of people collectively known as Seminoles, consisting of Creek and Black Seminoles as well as other allied tribes (see below).
The Seminoles and slave catchers argued over the ownership of slaves. New plantations in Florida increased the pool of slaves who could escape to Seminole territory. Worried about the possibility of an Indian uprising and/or a slave rebellion, Governor DuVal requested additional Federal troops for Florida, but in 1828 the US closed Fort King.
According to Herbert Aptheker, "there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of, or the actual outbreak of, militant concerted slave action." [3] Slave rebellions in the United States were small and diffuse compared with those in other slave economies in part due to "the ...
Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835–1838) [27] Amistad seizure (1839) [28] Creole case (1841) (the most successful slave revolt in US history) 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation [29] Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) [30] John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) (failed attempt to organize a slave rebellion)
John Caesar (c. 1770s? – January 17, 1837) was a Black Seminole lieutenant and interpreter to Ee-mat-la, hereditary chief of the St. Johns River Seminoles in Florida. In Joshua Giddings' history of the wars against the Seminole, Caesar was described as "an old man and somewhat of a privileged character among both Indians and Exiles."
This event is also viewed as a liberation of the enslaved workers, part of a large scale slave rebellion facilitated by Seminoles. Florida historian Canter Brown claims that “When open warfare commenced in December 1835 and January 1836, hundreds-if not 1,000 or more-bondsmen cooperated by deserting to Indian and black settlements.”
Hand-colored etching based on a daguerreotype made in New York in 1852 of Seminole leaders Billy Bowlegs, Thlocklo Tustenuggee, Abram, John Jumper, Fasatchee Emanthla, and Sarparkee Yohola. [ 1 ] Abraham , Seminole war-name Souanaffe Tustenukke , [ 2 ] called Yobly by some whites, [ 3 ] was a 19th-century Floridian who served as an interpreter ...