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The black Seminole culture that took shape after 1800 was a dynamic mixture of African, Native American, Spanish, and slave traditions. Adopting certain practices of the Native Americans, maroons wore Seminole clothing and ate the same foodstuffs prepared the same way: they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour ...
Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole, et al., but American-born or naturalized smugglers, Indigenous slave traders, and any American buyers of ...
Listing for the Joseph Bond sale - "Sales of Land and Negroes in South Western Georgia," Albany Patriot via Macon Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1860 This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner.
Seminole country quickly became the new locus of black freedom in the region. [59] While the other major Southern Native American nations began to pursue black slavery, political centralization, and a new economy, Seminoles drew on culturally conservative elements of native culture and incorporated African Americans as valued members of their ...
The old Spanish slave market that was constructed in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573. [6] (1886) In 1528, a slave named Estevanico ("Little Steven") was brought to the area as part of the Narváez expedition, which then continued on to Texas. [7] [8] [9] More African slaves arrived in Florida in 1539 with ...
Two slave traders on horseback escort a group of slaves on foot; originally from Virginia, the slaves were to be offered for sale first in Tennessee (Unidentified artist, 1850, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) It is unclear where Jackson collected the enslaved people he carried south, and in what quantities of people he trafficked.
In 1849, the city began as a settlement founded by John Horse, a Seminole freedman nicknamed Gopher John, and other Seminole slaves. In 1855, the Florida Seminoles established their capital in ...
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [6] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.