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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Seminoles"”.
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Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland
… a sense of dignity, Negros Mascogos/Black Seminoles use history and racialization as tools of negotiation between themselves and the two nation-states where they live: Mexico and the United States. I analyze the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole people as a case of racialization that illustrates …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… including generals, volunteers, soldiers, Seminoles, and Black Seminoles, viewed the war and, through the use of diaries, letters, personal narratives, and professional reports, demonstrate the centrality of competing conceptions of slavery and race relations to the everyday struggles of …
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Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War
… alternative explanations for the Florida Seminoles' decision to wage war against the United States during the 1850s.
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Slavery, race, and nation in Indian Territory, 1830-1866
… War. Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminoles moved in the nineteenth century from the kinship-based tribal political structures they had utilized for centuries to modern polities who employed the language of nation and citizenship. At the same time, each also adopted the plantation …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… Indians, and anti-Confederate Creeks, Seminoles, and African-Americans gathered under the leadership of dissident Creek chief Opothleyahola. Cultural divisions within the Five Tribes, and differing visions of sovereignty in the future, threatened to undermine Indian-Confederate …