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Seminole War: African and Native American Cooperation, 1837

Seminole War, 1835
Seminole War, 1835

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

Seminole nation defeat U.S. army - WCH | Stories

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