They beat the US, burned down their captors plantations, walked the Trail of Tears, forced their own emancipation and then settled in Mexico. This is the fantastic tale of the Black American Tribe to beat them all enjoy!
✨Huge Special Thanks to the two women who shared their history with us:
Windy Goodloe – Black Seminole Indian Scout descendant, SISCA Boardmember
Corina Torralba Harrington – Black Seminole descendant, SISCA Treasurer
(Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetary Association)
🔷Seminole Resources:
– Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetary Association https://www.seminolecemeteryassociation.com/
– Casa de la Cultura (Nacimiento, Mex) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079974183948
– Joseph A. Opala. The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Black%20Seminoles%20.pdf
– Mahon, John K. (1967). History of the Second Seminole War 1835-1842 (Revised Edition). University of Florida Press.
– Akil II, Bakari. “Seminoles With African Ancestry: The Right To Heritage”, The Black World Today, December 27, 2003.
– Kathleen A. Deagan (2014). “Fort Mose: America’s first Free Black Community”. In Ann L.; Henderson Gary R. Mormino; Carlos J. Cano (eds.). Spanish Pathways in Florida, 1492-1992: Caminos Españoles en La Florida, 1492-1992. Pineapple Press. p. 142.
– Taylor, J., Nicholas, W. C., & Mayer, D. N. (1988). Of Principles and Men: The Correspondence of John Taylor of Caroline with Wilson Cary Nicholas 1806-1808. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 96(3), 345–388. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4249027
– Dixon, A. E. (2020). Black Seminole Ethnogenisis: Origins, Cultural Characteristics, and Alliances. Phylon (1960-), 57(1), 8–24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26924984
– “Five Civilized Tribes”. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2014-12-28. Retrieved 2015-01-22
– Boyd, Mark Frederick. “The Seminole War: Its Background and Onset.” Florida Historical Quarterly 30.1 (July 1951): 63.
– Brown, Canter. “Race Relations in Territorial Florida, 1821-1845,” Florida Historical Quarterly 73.3 (January 1995): 289, 304
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0:00 Intro to Black Seminoles
1:05 Skit
2:00 Freedom in Florida
2:21 Civilized tribes
3:17 On the way to Nacimiento
4:12 Meet Windy, descendent of Black Seminoles
4:58 Gullah people went south
5:28 FL free blk settlements
6:59 Creek Indian split
7:25 Where “Seminole” comes from
7:55 Black and Indigenous communities together
8:29 Florida Georgia Conflict
9:09 1st Seminole War
10:43 Andrew $20 Jackson
11:24 The Indian Problem
12:38 Sharing is caring
13:08 2nd Seminole War | Negro War
14:16 Costliest Slave Rebellion in US history
15:38 Trail of Tears
16:11 Revoked emancipation
16:32 A way out
17:50 Meet Corina, born in Nacimiento
18:39
