Saturday, December 26, 2015

THE CHRISTMAS DAY FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF 1837

Feeling Rebloggy




On Christmas day in 1837, the Africans and Native Americans who formed Florida’s Seminole Nation defeated a vastly superior U.S. invading army bent on cracking this early rainbow coalition and returning the Africans to slavery. The Seminole victory stands as a milestone in the march of American liberty. Though it reads like a Hollywood thriller, this amazing story has yet to capture public attention. It is absent from most school textbooks, social studies courses, Hollywood movies, and TV.



~Zinn Project 
via
Native Lives Matter


READ MORE: http://zinnedproject.org/2013/12/seminole-anti-colonial-struggle/

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