On 25 December 1837, the Africans and Native Americans who formed Florida's Seminole nation defeated a vastly superior U.S. invading army bent on cracking this early rainbow coalition and returning the Africans to slavery. This is a short history of the struggle: https://libcom.org/history/christmas-day-freedom-fighters-hidden-history-seminole-anticolonial-struggle-william-kat
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"Seminole War: African and Native American Cooperation, 1837." Historianspeaks, December 29, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/seminole-war-african-and-native-american-cooperation-1837.
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