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Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro

Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro

Guinn, Jeff

Paperback

Native American HistoryBlack American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1585423904
ISBN13: 9781585423903
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 13 2005
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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