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2. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African diaspora in Indian Country
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Miles,Tiya (Author) and Holland,Sharon Patricia (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 364 p, "These essays explore the complex cultures, identities, and politics that arise in the space where black and native experiences converge." (Google)
3. Black Seminoles in the Bahamas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Howard,Rosalyn (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 150 p, Contents: 1. The Significance of African and Indigenous Peoples' Contacts in the Americas -- 2. New Identities, New Alliances -- 3. The Promised Island: Andros, Bahamas -- 4. "We Reach": Bahamaland -- 5. De People Dem: Black Seminoles in the "Land behind God's Back" -- 6. Bahamian Black Seminole Identity -- 7. The Meaning of Heritage -- 8. Conclusion
4. Freedom on the border: the Seminole Maroons in Florida: the Indian territory--Coahuila and Texas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mulroy,Kevin (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 246 p., Under the brilliant leadership of the charismatic John Horse, a band of black runaways, in alliance with Seminole Indians under Wild Cat, migrated from the Indian Territory to northern Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century to escape from slavery. These maroons subsequently provided soldiers for Mexico's frontier defense and later served the United States Army as the renowned Seminole Negro Indian Scouts. This is the story of the maroons' ethnogenesis in Florida, their removal to the West, their role in the Texas Indian Wars, and the fate of their long quest for freedom and self-determination along both sides of the Rio Grande. Their tale is a rich and colorful one, and one of epic proportions, stretching from the swamps of the Southeast to the desert Southwest. The maroons' history of African origins, plantation slavery, European and Indian associations, Florida wars, and forced removal culminated in a Mexican borderlands mosaic incorporating slave hunters, corrupt Indian agents, Texas filibusters, Mexican revolutionaries, French invaders, Apache and Comanche raiders, frontier outlaws and lawmen, and Buffalo Soldiers.