The Black Seminoles, or Afro-Seminoles, are an ethnic group of mixed Native American and African origin [1] associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. They are mostly blood descendants of the Seminole people, free Africans, and escaped former slaves, who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida.

2020年11月29日 · The inhabitants of maroon settlements established near Seminole communities gradually became known as Black Seminoles. After Florida became a British colony in 1763, James Grant, governor of British East Florida, encouraged white settlers to set up plantations using enslaved labor.

2022年4月6日 · The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen, were a community derived from Runaway slaves who integrated into American Indian culture. They were mostly Gullah fugitives who escaped from the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia who …

Black Seminoles, a group of free blacks and runaway slaves (maroons) that joined forces with the Seminole Indians in Florida from approximately 1700 through the 1850s. The Black Seminoles were celebrated for their bravery and tenacity during the three Seminole Wars.

The Black Seminoles were escaped slaves, primarily from Georgia, and their descendants, who joined the Seminole Indians in Florida to resist being returned to slavery. As a rule, they were not of mixed-blood with the Indians but were black people who allied themselves with the Indians to fight removal from Florida by slave-catches and American ...

2012年12月18日 · BIG CYPRESS — A photography exhibit at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum provides a rare outsider’s glimpse into Seminole Tribal life from more than a century ago. For Tribal member Wanda Zepeda who attended the Dec. 7 opening of “Camera-Man: the Seminole through the lens of Julian Dimock,” the nearly two dozen duo-tone photographs taken in 1910 ...

Another highlight of the exhibition’s visual documentation will be an archival black and white film of traditional Seminole dance. This exceptional collection was formed over the course of 40 years, around the Reeves’ respect for the long history of perseverance of the Seminole during the formative years of the State.

2020年11月18日 · Black Seminoles were enslaved Africans and Black Americans who, beginning in the late 17th century, fled plantations in the Southern American colonies and joined with the newly-formed Seminole tribe in Spanish-owned Florida.

Native Americans and Africans new to North America, vernacularly known as Black Seminoles. In Florida, free Blacks, runaway slaves, and Blacks owned by Seminoles over time became known as Black Seminoles. These Black Seminoles either lived in separate communities near Seminole Native Americans or joined them by cohabitating or intermarriage.

2020年7月9日 · This article argues against the notion that the Black experience among the Seminoles prior to the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was homogenous and considers the role of those who experienced the restrictions of enslavement: the Estelusti.