Invisible Rebellion

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The Invisible Rebellion

Slavery was implemented and enforced on the lives of many African Americans since the beginning of America's birth. However, as America progress towards a more liberal and less conservative mind set, public institutions are implementing courses that shed light on this particular topic. Names such as Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Gabriel rings throughout history's ears as the leaders of the many insurrections that had an impact on America's views on slavery. The Haitian Revolution also took the lime light as the rebellion that encouraged the insurrection in many other places including those that took place in America. Though scholars and historians explore these individuals and events in detail, they also over looked an important event that had a great impact on slave rebellion as much as the Haitian Revolution if not more. Almost every history book does not have any content or detail of the Black Seminole Rebellion only until recently where few scholars have done extensive research to shed light on the importance of this rebellion. Even though many rebellions were successful, none of them were as successful and large as the Black Seminole Rebellion, this was due to the fact that they kept the stability of their freedom, and amassed an army composed of many African slaves and Indians big enough to win a war against a European power, which in turn, shook the foundation of America's ideology on slavery to the point where the event was concealed for over half a century.

To understand the event of the Black Seminole Rebellion, it is necessary to understand Seminoles Indians' background and how they got involved with African slaves. The history of the Black Seminole began before the birth of America...

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To make a distinction, the American revolution and the War of 1812 offered freedom to slaves who were willing to join the British forces and against the colonies. This offer of a safe haven for the slaves were made by a foreign state power. Though complicated, the civil war also made a similar offer where Lincoln essentially offered slaves freedom. While all three were offers by a state power, the Seminole Nation offered no such safe haven or promises for the slaves that participated in the rebellion. Another distinction that could be made was that the three other wars had slaved participation as a planned strategic offer while the slaves did not participate from a tactical offer but just by pure motivation to be free. To simply put it, slaves participated because they saw the opportunity for freedom and joined for the same ideals as the Black Seminoles.

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