Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas

$19.95

ISBN: 9780896725164
Dewey: 975.9004973
LCC Number: E99.S28
Author: Kevin Mulroy
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Pages: 256
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Description

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an escape from slavery in an unprecedented alliance with Seminole Indians in Florida. This is the story of the maroons’ ethnogenesis in Florida, their removal to the West, their role in the Texas Indian Wars, and the fate of their long quest for liberty and self-determination along both sides of the Rio Grande. Their tale is rich, colorful, and epic, stretching from the swamps of the Southeast to the desert Southwest. From a borderlands mosaic of slave hunters, corrupt Indian agents, Texas filibusters, Mexican revolutionaries, French invaders, Apache and Comanche raiders, frontier outlaws, lawmen, and Buffalo Soldiers, emerges a saga of enslavement, flight, exile, and ultimately freedom.

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Weight 0.91 lbs
Dimensions 9.06 × 6.08 × 0.65 in
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