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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-10
0896725162
ISBN-13
9780896725164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4483798
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freedom on the Border : the Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas
Author
Kevin Mulroy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Publication Year
2003
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7in
Additional Product Features
Illustrated
Yes
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