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Newspaper title reads "massacre of the Whites by the 'Indians' and Blacks in Florida." and includes a wood engraving imagery of battle.
Newspaper coverage of the rebellion.

Black Seminole Slave Rebellion.

1835

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Newspaper coverage of the rebellion.

The Black Seminoles are a community of escaped, formerly-enslaved Gullah people and Seminole people who live together as one tribe. As the U.S. fights to take over Florida, the Seminole fight back over the course of 30 years, fighting to hold their land and to keep their freedom. Many of the Black Seminoles will escape into Mexico, Texas, and further in Florida, while others are captured by white slaveholders and are forced back into slavery.