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In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral history, and based on extensive interviews with descendants, this book describes the incredible circumstances of a people who sought shelter in the shadow of a tribe whose land and welfare already hung in the balance. And yet, in their tireless journey-from Florida to Indian Territory in Oklahoma; on the seven-hundred-mile flight from persecution that took them across the Rio Grande into Mexico; and then back across the Rio Grande to Texas-they never surrendered the hope of one day attaining land of their own. Our Land Before We Die brings to life the largely forgotten history of a courageous people and the descendants for whom this story is their only legacy.
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Sociology, Nonfiction, Black Seminoles, History, Indian scouts, African Americans, Relations with Indians, Government relations, Seminole Indians, Relations, Five civilized tribes, United states, relations, mexico, Mexico, relations, foreign countries, Indians of north america, southern states, Indians of north america, southwest, old, Indians of north america, government relationsShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Our Land Before We Die
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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1101160357 9781101160350
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Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro
September 12, 2002, Tarcher, J.P. Tarcher/Putnam
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1585421863 9781585421862
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"MISS CHARLES EMILY WILSON, last survivor of the Seminole Negro camp on Fort Clark across from Brackettville in South Texas, doesn't organize the Seminole Heritage Days celebration anymore."
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