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The Seminole Wars - America's Longest Indian Conflict (Hardcover)
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The Seminole Wars - America's Longest Indian Conflict (Hardcover)
Series: Florida History and Culture
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The Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of
all the Indian wars fought by this nation. Written for a popular
audience, this illustrated history is the first book to provide a
comprehensive overview of all three wars. John and Mary Lou Missall
examine not only the wars that were fought between 1817 and 1858
but also the events leading up to them and their place in American
history. In particular it sheds new light on the relationship
between the wars, the issue of slavery, and the prevailing
attitudes toward Native Americans. While fought in Florida, the
Seminole Wars were a major concern to the nation as a whole. In
addition to the issue of slavery, a culture of national arrogance
and religious fervor fostered an attitude that allowed the
conflicts to happen. The first war, led by General Andrew Jackson,
was part of an attempt to wrest Florida from Spain and had
international repercussions that led to a lengthy congressional
investigation. The second, which lasted seven years, took the lives
of more than 1,500 soldiers and resulted in the forced removal of
more than 3,000 Seminole Indians from Florida and the deaths of
countless others. During 1836 and 1837 it was the predominant story
in national newspapers, and public support for the war was fueled
in part by fear among slaveholders that black Seminoles might
inspire a general slave uprising. The third war, fought on the eve
of the Civil War, was an attempt to remove the final remnants of
the Seminole Nation from their homes in the Everglades. The authors
describe the wars as both a military and a moral embarrassment-a
sad chapter in American history that has been overshadowed by the
Civil War and by Indian wars fought west of the Mississippi. The
conflicts were the nation's first guerrilla wars. They offered the
country its first opportunity for aggressive territorial expansion
and highlighted the dangers of an inflexible government policy.
Analyzing events of the wars against larger issues, the authors
observe: "It often seems as if the Seminole Nation was the nail
being pounded by the hammer of American policy. What interested us
most was why the hammer was swung in the first place." Based on
original research that makes use of diaries, military reports, and
archival newspapers, this work will be of interest to general
readers as well as historians of Florida and Native American life
and to those who study the antebellum South and the early American
Republic.
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