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Sto caricando le informazioni... Florida's Seminole Wars: 1817-1858di Joe Knetsch
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Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's history. Among the most well-known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and political leaders were made and destroyed in the mosquito-infested swamps of Florida's interior, the Seminoles and their allies, including the Miccosukee tribe and many escaped slaves, managed to wage war on their own terms. The study of guerrilla warfare tactics employed by the Seminoles may have aided modern American forces fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and other regions. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)975.9History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. FloridaClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Author Joe Knetsch makes the case that the Seminoles were especially problematical because they gave sanctuary to escaped slaves, even before Florida became part of the United States as sort of an afterthought to the War of 1812. The exact status of escaped slaves among the Seminole isn’t clear. Like most natives, the Seminole had always had “slaves” themselves, but these were captives from other tribes, and these were usually incorporated into the tribe after sort of a probationary period. The evidence is scanty but it seems like the Seminole initially treated escaped black slaves entering their territory the same way, but eventually adopted a “chattel slavery” attitude similar to the United States to their north. However there’s an argument that this was a pretense to avoid demands for the return of runaways. It’s certain that several blacks occupied respectable positions among the Seminole – often as translators; and its also certain that restoration of slaves to white owners was an extreme sticking point in treaty negotiations with the Seminole (and one that was eventually conceded; when most of the Seminole moved to Oklahoma, they took their blacks – slaves or tribesmen or whatever – with them). Ketsch also documents consistent attitude in the American slave states: it was widely claimed that Black Seminoles were responsible for all the trouble, “stirring up” the Indians for attacks on white settlements.
The war eventually ground down. The Seminole had a number of dramatic victories over the US Army and state militias, completely wiping out some units that were contemptuous of their enemy. Eventually most of the Seminole agreed to relocate; the remainder were treated with a sort of benign neglect with the idea that they would eventually give up and move; they didn’t and are still there in Florida.
Interesting discussion of yet another part of American history I had previously been ignorant of. Ketsch provides numerous illustrations of Seminoles and their opponents. There are quite a few maps, but they're all contemporary; I’d have liked to see some modern maps illustrating some of the troop operations. No foot or endnotes but most sources are identified in the text. The bibliography includes both documentary sources and books. ( )