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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Cite this blog:
"The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842." Historianspeaks, December 25, 2024. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/the-second-seminole-war-1835-1842.
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