The Seminole-African Alliance
Issue 1, Volume 7, March 2011Filed Under: Revolutions
The Seminole-African Alliance The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas — slaves that, as historian William Loren Katz explains, “since 1738 had built prosperous, free, self-governing communities.” Katz explains the genesis of this alliance: “Africans... [Read more...]
