A brief history of how Black Seminoles found freedom from slavery in Florida
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They were also known as the Black Maroons of Florida, the Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen. The Black Seminoles were a group of free Blacks and runaway slaves (or maroons) that fled plantations in the Southern American colonies and joined with the Seminole Indians in Florida from the late 17th century. Most of the Black...