Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation

by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.

Book Overview

Because Seminoles held slaves in a confusing system that was markedly dissimilar to white society's, the federal government was challenged to identify which blacks in Florida were free and which were not. As claims by slave owners and slave hunters fell into conflict, the Seminoles' more relaxed form of enslavement threatened the overall institution. This discord was intensified by the Second Seminole War, in which slaves united with Seminoles to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578063604
• ISBN13: 9781578063604
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"