the resistance of Christmas Eve 1837 remains a powerful example of the cunning forces of right
prevailing over the arrogant power of might.
“An estimated 380 to 480 freedom-fighting African and Indian members of the Seminole nation
threw back an advance of more than a thousand U.S. Army and other troops led by Colonel
Zachary Taylor, a future president of the United States,” says Katz. “The Seminoles so badly
mauled the invaders that Taylor ordered his soldiers to fall back, bury their dead, tend to their
wounded and ponder the largest single U.S. defeat in decades of Indian warfare. The battle of
Lake Okeechobee is not a story you will find in school or college textbooks, and has slipped
from the public consciousness. But in a country that cherishes its freedom-fighting heritage,
Black and Red Seminóles of Florida sent everyone a message that deserves to be remembered
and honored.”
prevailing over the arrogant power of might.
“An estimated 380 to 480 freedom-fighting African and Indian members of the Seminole nation
threw back an advance of more than a thousand U.S. Army and other troops led by Colonel
Zachary Taylor, a future president of the United States,” says Katz. “The Seminoles so badly
mauled the invaders that Taylor ordered his soldiers to fall back, bury their dead, tend to their
wounded and ponder the largest single U.S. defeat in decades of Indian warfare. The battle of
Lake Okeechobee is not a story you will find in school or college textbooks, and has slipped
from the public consciousness. But in a country that cherishes its freedom-fighting heritage,
Black and Red Seminóles of Florida sent everyone a message that deserves to be remembered
and honored.”
TIMELINE:
1831: Publication of the first issue of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist journal, The Liberator.
1840: Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) helps start the Underground Railroad to guide slaves to freedom.
1841: Former slave Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) delivers his first anti-slavery speech.
Patriot Words…
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
— Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq
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