"This... is a negro, not an Indian war." -General Thomas Sidney Jesup
The following are notable figures in the Three Seminole Wars of Florida (1812-1858), a sphere of war apart of a wider war which involved the Muscogee (Creek) War and the War of 1812.
Black Seminoles (Muscogee) established dozens of Maroon colonies alongside Natives across Florida from Alligator Hole, Angola, Fort Mose, Prospect Bluff, Pilakilahaka, and many others razed or abandoned during the Seminole Wars and establishment of Florida as a State. Black Muscogees fought not only against loss of lands, but against being sold into captivity. Many were free trained Colonial Militia for the Spanish, or vassals under Muscogee Chiefs, where a portion of their crops were given as tribute. Many will be forced to leave Florida for Native relocation, sold into captivity, or fled to South Florida & the everglades to avoid capture after the war
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