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Native Americans
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Native Americans and Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 1552 Includes: BibliographyIndians figured prominently in American history during the lifetime of the great nineteenth-century abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass—from the First Seminole War (1817-1818), fought in Florida at about the same time he was born, to the massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890, five years before his death. The United States enacted the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and relocated Native Americans from their eastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. The nation fought another war against the Seminoles and their free black and fugitive slave allies in Florida from 1835 to 1842. More than four thousand Seminoles, including four hundred blacks, were resettled in the Indian Territory, while white settlers with more than ten thousand slaves moved into Florida between ...
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Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 6586 Includes: Slavery in the Americas | Spanish Southwest | Spanish Florida | Slavery in the French and English Colonies | Slavery in Native American Lands | Native Americans and African American Slavery | African Americans and Indian Removal | Black Seminoles | The Civil War in the Indian Territory | The West | Postwar Segregation | Bibliography | Bibliography[This entry contains two subentries dealing with relations between Native Americans and African Americans. The first article provides a discussion of the topic from the colonial period to 1830, while the second article continues the discussion of the topic through the end of the nineteenth century.] The history of relations between Native Americans and African Americans must be understood within the context of the greater forces that brought African and Native American peoples together. These forces varied greatly over time and space; no easy generalizations are possible. However, one factor regularly brought the two peoples together from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries: European and American exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans. ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 805 Includes: BibliographyIndigenous peoples of North America, also known as American Indians, with whom African Americans have had a long history of contact, characterized by both cooperation and confrontation; many African Americans trace their lineage in part to Native American ancestors. After arriving in the Americas, Europeans turned first to Native Americans as a source of forced labor. They introduced African slaves to the region only after calculating the difficulty of coercing large numbers of Native Americans into their labor systems. Africans who fled from slavery frequently mixed with Native Americans to avoid being captured. Native Americans who escaped from slavery could evade the colonists through their knowledge of the surrounding areas, and some of them returned to help free enslaved Africans.Wherever ...
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