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Abraham was born enslaved in Georgia in the 1790s and died in the 1870s in what is now Seminole County, Oklahoma. [6] He was described as having ties to Pensacola, having traveled to Washington, D.C., and the Indian Territory, and having had "fluent speech and polished manners."
John Caesar (c. 1770s? – January 17, 1837) was a Black Seminole lieutenant and interpreter to Ee-mat-la, hereditary chief of the St. Johns River Seminoles in Florida. In Joshua Giddings' history of the wars against the Seminole, Caesar was described as "an old man and somewhat of a privileged character among both Indians and Exiles."
The Black and native Seminoles originally came from Florida; after escaping their masters, several hundred black freedmen sought refuge among the Seminoles, who granted them autonomy in exchange for periodic tribute and military service. [4] In 1842, the Seminoles reluctantly agreed to move to a reservation in the Indian Territory.
The A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center is a museum in Gainesville, Florida. The museum preserves the legacy of Allen Quin Jones (1893–1994), [ 3 ] a local educator who dedicated his life to educating African-Americans.
Most of the Seminole Nation, including about 500 Black Seminoles, was moved to lands in the western U.S. designated as the "Indian Territory." History refers to the forced evacuation as the Trail ...
Oct. 16—Returning from World War II to the Gainesville community, Arthur Lipscomb Jr. was described as a "pillar of society in the Black neighborhood (and) the south side" by American Legion ...
As a result of the Second Seminole War (1835–1842), about 3,800 Seminoles and Black Seminoles were forcibly removed to Indian Territory (the modern state of Oklahoma). [50] During the American Civil War, the members and leaders split over their loyalties, with John Chupco refusing to sign a treaty with the Confederacy .