Black Seminoles
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The Black Seminoles, or Afro-Seminoles, are an ethnic group of mixed Seminole and African origin. They are mostly blood descendants of the Seminole people, free Africans, and escaped former slaves, wh
An Afro-Seminole elder smoking from a pipe (1952)
Black Seminole communities were found near the Suwanee River. Larry Eugene Rivers says the name Suwanee may have Bantu etymological origins from the word nsubwanyi meaning "my house, my home".
Maroons preparing to ambush
Fort Mose, Fort Mose Historic State Park
Gullah
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Gullahs, also known in some areas as Geechees and alternatively as Gullah–Geechees, are an African American ethnic group rooted in the coastal areas of the U.S. states of North Carolina, South Carolin
Black Seminoles
…on the General Council of the Nation. Other centers are in Florida, Texas, the Bahamas, and northern Mexico. Their culture is a blending of African, Gullah, Seminole, Mexican, Caribbean, and European traditions. Since the 1930s, the Seminole Freedmen have struggled with cycles of exclusion from the Seminole…
A Gullah woman makes a sweetgrass basket in Charleston's City Market
Gullah basket
A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina (1939)
Coffin Point Praise House, 57 Coffin Point Rd, St. Helena Island, South Carolina