Before Reconstruction, there was resistance. Du Bois reminds us: Florida was a refuge, the Seminole Wars were slave raids, and Black people were freeing themselves long before the Emancipation Proclamation. #BlackReconstruction #SeminoleWars

Jamie Holmes talks to @majorityreport.bsky.social
about his book #TheFreeAndTheDead, the story of how a free Black American and an #Indigenous warrior resisted the US attack on the #Seminoles in pre-statehood #Florida

#NativeAmericans #BlackHistory #SeminoleWars #BlackSeminoles #UShistory #books

"The Rebel army is now the legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac." - Joseph Hooker

#AmericanCivilWar #Confederate #SeminoleWars #MilitaryFamily #WordsOfVeterans