The Seminole Wars...No the Gullah Wars. A war oblivious to African Americans
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Pawging has been used against us for quite some time. brehs got to resist the kryptonite of PAWGS
Agreed.
December 1835
Using a six-pound cannon for cover, the soldiers mounted a breastwork defense. By 2 p.m., their artillery had given out. Fifty mounted black warriors now rode onto the battlefield wielding axes and knives. According to Ransom Clarke, one of two white men to survive the day, the blacks commenced, splitting open the heads of all who showed the least sign of life … and accompanying their bloody work with obscene and taunting derisions, and with frequent cries of 'what have you got to sell?
these Negus was trill
Using a six-pound cannon for cover, the soldiers mounted a breastwork defense. By 2 p.m., their artillery had given out. Fifty mounted black warriors now rode onto the battlefield wielding axes and knives. According to Ransom Clarke, one of two white men to survive the day, the blacks commenced, splitting open the heads of all who showed the least sign of life … and accompanying their bloody work with obscene and taunting derisions, and with frequent cries of 'what have you got to sell?
these Negus was trill
December 1835
Using a six-pound cannon for cover, the soldiers mounted a breastwork defense. By 2 p.m., their artillery had given out. Fifty mounted black warriors now rode onto the battlefield wielding axes and knives. According to Ransom Clarke, one of two white men to survive the day, the blacks commenced, splitting open the heads of all who showed the least sign of life … and accompanying their bloody work with obscene and taunting derisions, and with frequent cries of 'what have you got to sell?
these Negus was trill
April 1836
Based on the number of plantation rebels alone, the rebellion was far and away the largest in U.S. history.
Amazingly, historians have failed to recognize the size of the rebellion right up to the present day. Since 1860, scholars have subscribed to the conventional wisdom that no major slave rebellions took place in the U.S. after 1831. This mistaken notion has many sources, but it mainly stems from a southern tradition that sought to bury all memory of slave rebellions. The tradition nearly erased the Black Seminole uprising from national consciousness. Indian aspects of the Florida war entered national history, as did the maroon elements to a lesser extent, but not the slave uprising. And yet evidence of its existence abounds, in military records, newspapers, plantation journals, legal petitions -- even Southern pleas for help in quelling the violence
Based on the number of plantation rebels alone, the rebellion was far and away the largest in U.S. history.
Amazingly, historians have failed to recognize the size of the rebellion right up to the present day. Since 1860, scholars have subscribed to the conventional wisdom that no major slave rebellions took place in the U.S. after 1831. This mistaken notion has many sources, but it mainly stems from a southern tradition that sought to bury all memory of slave rebellions. The tradition nearly erased the Black Seminole uprising from national consciousness. Indian aspects of the Florida war entered national history, as did the maroon elements to a lesser extent, but not the slave uprising. And yet evidence of its existence abounds, in military records, newspapers, plantation journals, legal petitions -- even Southern pleas for help in quelling the violence
In their pleas for help, Florida's leaders emphasized the terror of the Black Seminoles, "better disciplined and more intelligent than [the Indians], to whom there is a daily accession of runaway Negroes from the plantations."
"We expect your Georgia volunteers ... and let them know that your brother and my best friend after fighting til the last ... was butchered by them Indian Negroes"
Secretary of War Lewis Cass sent his two leading generals to Florida, Winfield Scott and Edmund Gaines, and he deployed a combined force of 6,000 men by the close of the year, 9,000 by the end of 1837. Cass and Jackson had both neglected the Florida situation in 1835, hardly believing that the Seminoles could pose a threat. Now, they demanded swift action
"We expect your Georgia volunteers ... and let them know that your brother and my best friend after fighting til the last ... was butchered by them Indian Negroes"
Secretary of War Lewis Cass sent his two leading generals to Florida, Winfield Scott and Edmund Gaines, and he deployed a combined force of 6,000 men by the close of the year, 9,000 by the end of 1837. Cass and Jackson had both neglected the Florida situation in 1835, hardly believing that the Seminoles could pose a threat. Now, they demanded swift action
Jan-May 1836
Throughout the war's first stages, the U.S. failed to win a single engagement. President Jackson was apoplectic, especially on the failure to capture the Seminole women: "Why it is that their deposit for women have not been found I cannot conjecture." If Scott had only followed his strategy recommendations, said the President, he would have put an end to the war in thirty days. The conflict, he wrote, was "humiliating to our military character."
The war tarnished the reputations of all its commanders, including five generals in the first year alone.
Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock wrote...
"The government is in the wrong, and this is the chief cause of the persevering opposition of the Indians, who have nobly defended their country against our attempt to enforce a fraudulent treaty. The natives used every means to avoid a war, but were forced into it by the tyranny of our government"
Throughout the war's first stages, the U.S. failed to win a single engagement. President Jackson was apoplectic, especially on the failure to capture the Seminole women: "Why it is that their deposit for women have not been found I cannot conjecture." If Scott had only followed his strategy recommendations, said the President, he would have put an end to the war in thirty days. The conflict, he wrote, was "humiliating to our military character."
The war tarnished the reputations of all its commanders, including five generals in the first year alone.
Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock wrote...
"The government is in the wrong, and this is the chief cause of the persevering opposition of the Indians, who have nobly defended their country against our attempt to enforce a fraudulent treaty. The natives used every means to avoid a war, but were forced into it by the tyranny of our government"
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The Seminoles and Black Seminoles represent the very best tradition of shared Indigenous & Afrikan struggle against White supremacy in North America.
I need to bump my old thread too
Great thread
hilarious to me ppl defend Andrew Jackson, yet he deliberately targeted this establishment in SPAIN's sovereign territory. Just a disgrace.