Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0896722503
ISBN13:9780896722507
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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a rollickin' good yarn - unputdownable
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Kevin, as always, is a master story teller. This book blends that mastery with a sound knowledge of the subject matter evidencing lots of research. Brings a few tears, but well worth reading.....
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