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The Southern Underground Railroad: The Seminole Alliance
Inside the Seminole Nation stood Black towns — free, armed, and organized. In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles: The Southern Underground Railroad, Mr. Black History traces the Black Seminole alliance: the maroon town of Angola on the Manatee River, Pilaklikaha — Abraham's Old Town — and the tribute system historian Kenneth Wiggins Porter called "vassals, not slaves."
Meet Abraham, interpreter and lieutenant to head chief Micanopy, and John Horse — Juan Caballo — who co-led his people across the Rio Grande into Mexico in July 1850. Drawing on Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., Kevin Mulroy, Jane…
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