The Seminole Wars were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminole Tribe of Florida tend to vi
Seminole men hide among mangrove roots as a U.S. Marine expedition searches for them in the Everglades during the Second Seminole War Marines Battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War—1835–1842, painted in 1956
Andrew Jackson led an invasion of Florida during the First Seminole War.
Edmund Pendleton Gaines commanded Federal troops at the Battle of Negro Fort.
Illustration of the arrest of Hillis Hadjo and Homathlemico at St. Mark's
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
Seminole Wars
…Jackson led U.S. forces into Florida—despite Spanish objections—to pursue the Seminoles. Jackson's forces destroyed several Seminole, Mikasuki and Black Seminole towns, as well as captured San Marcos de Apalache and briefly occupied Pensacola before withdrawing in 1818. In 1819 the U.S. and Spain agreed to…
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