Postscript:
William Styron's 1968 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
William Styron's 1968 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
TIMELINE:
1808: Slave importation is outlawed.
1820: Women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony is born.
1828: The Cherokee Legislative Council begins publishing the Cherokee Phoenix, a newspaper in both
English and Cherokee.
English and Cherokee.
1830: Mary Harris “Mother” Jones is born. The lifetime agitator was known to say: “I'm not a humanitarian.
I'm a hell-raiser.”
I'm a hell-raiser.”
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THE SEMINOLE–AFRICAN ALLIANCE
The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek
Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”)
became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves
that, as historian William Loren Katz explains, “Since 1738 had built prosperous, free, self-
governing communities.”
Katz explains the genesis of this alliance: “Africans began to instruct Seminoles in methods of rice
cultivation they had learned in Senegambia and Sierra Leone. Then the two peoples forged
Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”)
became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves
that, as historian William Loren Katz explains, “Since 1738 had built prosperous, free, self-
governing communities.”
Katz explains the genesis of this alliance: “Africans began to instruct Seminoles in methods of rice
cultivation they had learned in Senegambia and Sierra Leone. Then the two peoples forged
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