Florida History: The Black Seminoles [VIDEO]

The underground railroad was a pathway used by runaway slaves to escape the shackles of slavery and pursue a life of freedom. Traditionally, the railroad headed North toward freedom but a small portion of runaways instead turned South toward Florida.
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[@lf1496]

The picture you are using for your video is NOT of "black Seminoles" That is Pio Pico and his wife. Pio Pico is, one of many wealthy landowning "black Mexicans" that founded the city of Los Angeles when it was still Mexico. Pico blvd in LA is named after him.🙄

[@itawambamingo]

Absolutely! I was born in Los Angeles and I grew up seeing his photograph throughout my childhood.

[@jerryj920]

Come on, now, let 'em know. Thank you. Blessings. #teachingnotpreaching

[@DamianX1929]

@la mulata linda Martinez EXACTLY what happens when we let someone else tell our story! 💯

[@jerryj920]

@@DamianX1929 Indeed. Thank you for your reply. Blessings. #teachingnotpreaching

[@IAMUNUAMI]

Thawadah/Thank you for your knowledge of. Nevertheless, I knew that the picture being used was fake/false. And, by coming straight to the comments you verified my thoughts/instinct. We have been and continue to be lied to. Therefore, I paused the video at the very beginning to search a comment such as yours. After finding and reading your comment, I shut the video completely down. Why should I/we allow lies to continue entering our conscious and/or subconscious. When we have our spirits and/or our intuitions to lead, to show, and to tell us what need to be known and/or verified. Once again, Thawadah/Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Namasté; loving, sharing, caring, and giving.

[@chiefeaglespiritdancing9624]

The Seminoles did not lose the war against the usa, especially in the southern region. It was swamp land and they fought furiously against the american soldiers. It was the costliest war at that time. From USSA Yaholo/Osceloa 1818 to 1852 The USA Gov't to save face, because it wasn't financially viable any longer so they brokered a deal with the remaining Seminoles and allowed them to live in peace to this very day. The original Seminoles were black and brown with straight and curly hair, naturally when the slaves fleeing from forced servitude came upon them with open arms in most cases. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. They shared a likeness and a common foe. Stop telling half truths!!!!

[@chiefeaglespiritdancing9624]

@Super Comment chattel slavery is not the same as indentured servitude, and many mixed with them and their descendants claim to be indian is no less the than any one else today, furthermore once you entered into the tribe you became as one with that tribe.

[@chiefeaglespiritdancing9624]

Come tell me and my peoples from north and south Carolina that Punk!!!

[@toosense]

Mista Scott dont talk about Elizabeth Warren that way. Lol

[@gregd4633]

@@chiefeaglespiritdancing9624 ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾My grand mother is a Nassau County, Florida Seminole and my great grandfather was a “Healer” don’t pay attention to the negativity even though you have a spiritual eagle within your soul

[@chiefeaglespiritdancing9624]

@@gregd4633 ❤

[@ikickknowledge]

My mothers family are Seminole. We have always had coppercolored and dark skin. We have always been here, black Seminoles are forgotten due to lies and 5 dollar Indians.

[@koolkatgriff2239]

we did not come from no africa we was already here

[@ercanmehmet2524]

@Lori jallissa Springberg so it’s ok for loads of white people being 5 dollar Indians when they have nothing native in them. Yet not ok for black people with actual Native American genes in them to be accepted as members of a Native American tribe? No logic. It’s the very definition of racism.

[@jonathandoelander6130]

@@koolkatgriff2239 yeah... kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3rYd6hmaLyHbMU

[@10INCHCRUSHER]

@Lori jallissa Springberg So what plantation were your family on? There are records, remember they were property and used for tax purposes, and don't forget the census. I know, my family have been landowners for a couple of minutes in this country. I have one relative that came from slavery and we know were the ship docked, what church she was sold at, it's still standing in Bama and she in the town records. So speak on that.

[@lindamaemullins5151]

❤️

[@djeazyg5944]

So the phrase "it's because I have indian in my blood" wasn't a joke after all.. I would always hear Black people say that growing up.

[@bigbb7691]

its the truth. my grandmother and grandpa. never said they work on no Plantation. they wirked on a farm for money my grandmom was Born 1922 her mom 💯% wht ya indans . my grandpa. 1919 his dad was wht ya indans and he was cooper colored. u. need. to look up 5$. indans.

[@bigbb7691]

wht ya call indans

[@phyllisalexander1012]

I agree im 69 and always knew my maternal grandmother had indian in her you could see it. And paternal grandfather was biracial looked white. We are all mixed

[@radiantrenee406]

Go a learn more...most of the blacks in America are a mixture of Native American and Slave master mixture.

[@phyllisalexander1012]

I believe its way more than 5% of black americans have indian blood in them

[@ernestinethompson4910]

But it's sad that the seminole turned their backs on the black seminoles when the big payday came.

[@KnowledgeOverIndoctrination]

Those aren't Seminole. Seminole were Runaway slaves.

[@dnleon9921]

They are Seminole. They are Seminole with large amounts of Black DNA.

[@GypsyFairy85]

The couple in the thumbnail are not Seminole. That is the last governor of Alta California, Pio Pico and his wife Maria. Pico was born in San Gabriel California. He was black, native American and Spanish.

[@eleoncz7811]

Stop lying! That's Popeye from blood in blood out

[@lordvonmanor6915]

Why show a picture of California's Governer Pio Pico? He was not a Seminole Indian. Also I would like to mention that the word Blacks, Moors, Indians, and N Word are all synonyms within the various Indo langauges.

[@jcofer3074]

This makes sense because upon taking a dna test I notice a lot of relatives in mexico and south america. I talked to some of them and their oral history aligns with this. Some fled south to Mexico while some stayed as slaves or freemans.

[@romeromiller5113]

They were black from the beginning.

[@universalgod2553]

^^^^ Understanding Pheo & Eumelanin and weather that can cause changes (mutation) is key, but we need to start focusing on tribes such as Folsom who where here in the 1200's in "Colorado".

[@jrobi501]

And Asian they were a mixed with Mayan, Spanish and Aztec blood

[@theinfamouskimexperience]

@ThirdeyeStrike Facts

[@jonathandoelander6130]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3rYd6hmaLyHbMU

[@meb777]

@@universalgod2553 Olmec and Mayans, Washitaws

[@Myempire813]

I'm from sumter county the battle of Dade was 10 miles from where I was born and raised my grandparents were pure black Seminole aboriginal natives we will rise 🙏🏽

[@mustafael-amin9163]

Who here expected the enemy to tell/show the real truths?Not I!

[@AudranER]

Walter Plecker told lies to America. He has white washed America history too. Facts before Walter Plecker Paper Genocide: Since the beginning of the African slave trade in America many Native persons, unfortunately, to the detriment of Native Heritage, were being listed as Black, Mulatto, Negro or just lumped together as “Colored” which did not allow for a distinction between Indigenous and Africans on paper.

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@michelej9496]

Homeschool recommended.📖

[@rblood8076]

That's not what my grandmother told me.

[@atarabat-yah2437]

What did your grandmother tell you? I'd genuinely like to know because these older heads have so much information.

[@darlingjessie9965]

Notice our grandmas or aunties NEVER talk about our history in Kenya or Senegal? Why? Because that's not where our history begins!

[@dnleon9921]

@@atarabat-yah2437 touche

[@lindeknighton3918]

I wish the history of Black Seminoles who remained in Florida had also been presented, since there are so many on them there today.

[@caterolle1335]

I’m finding out my great grand mother was Seminole and knew it. Spoke Spanish and English. There wasn’t a real push to retain Seminole history outside of family oral history. A lot of Black Seminoles really bounced back and forward to the Bahamas, Key West and South Florida. Are you the lineage?

[@flymine1]

@@caterolle1335 @Linda Knighton - Are you being forced to call yourselves black. You are not black your skin is not black. You are an Aboriginal. Black is a legal status!!! For your own benefit this is something you must learn and incorporate in to you lives as well as the people you love. Also the narrator is saying the black Seminoles as if there are other Seminoles. That is a deceptive tactic to include people who are not what you are told they are.

[@caterolle1335]

They or KZbin keep deleting my comment lol.

[@marthaka367]

We are not Black we are Native American we are called SEMIMOLE there are no Black Seminoles This history is a Hijack to keep you from knowing who you really are The white mans history is a lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Toxicplyer]

Well stop calling them Black, we can probably get further if we stop referring to ourselves as what the Caucasian man wants us to be called.

[@TreeBug88]

Thank you

[@chamolove305]

Historic town of Coconut Grove, OverTown, Coral Gables, Allapattah, Liberty City, Opa-locka, Dania Beach, Hollywood, Lake Worth, West Palm Beach

[@k.c1126]

Black Seminoles settled in Red Bays, Andros during the course of the Seminole Wars. Even today they maintain contact with Seminoles in South Florida.

[@cmebans35]

Amazing

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

So many holes in this video...much is incorrect

[@skinimin6746]

Seminole is not a Creek word they adopted it from the Spanish who pronounced a word known as Cimarron. Escaped slaves were called this by the Spanish and joined with scattered Indian groups. Seminole was never specific Indian tribe name.

[@anthonyjones5911]

Seminole is translated from La Seminole, which is the discription used by the Spaniard to discribe the Yamasse People (spelling may not be correct) meaning the wild ones, the runaways because they were fierce in battle and never allowed themselves to remain captured. They are my people.

[@skinimin6746]

@@anthonyjones5911 I agree Seminole's mean wild or other variations can be used like untamed because there are many words for wild. And I agree also the Yamasse were a part of this. But I wanted point out that Seminole is not a Creek word. A lot of people are claiming Spanish and English names given to indigenous people. As well, as claiming names that were corrupted by Mongolian Altai before the Europeans started the slave trade. We've been fighting of colonizers a long time. Mongolian Altai people now run so many of the counsels and if not them half white ones do.

[@katedavy6272]

This is a time ot truth...the more the better. Let's all work toward it.

[@TheKidsGotTime-dq6rz]

Seminole isn't a Muskogee Creek word. It derives from the spanish word cimerron which means runaways/escapees. Spaniards used the term cimarrones to refer to the self emancipated Africans from the English colonies and the refugee Native American/Indigenous people who sought refuge in the jungles of Florida.The English learned the word from the Spaniards and anglicized it to Seminole. The English-Americans also shortened the term to Maroon.

[@obeomahbey7534]

The photos are of other peoples and at another time

[@kevincarlson7148]

Since I moved to Florida,all my closest friends here are black.You can trust them.Best friend is 1/4 Seminole.Myself,I'm 1/2 Whitebread and 1/2 Casper.

[@rickyevelynsheppard5994]

Pucknawhitla/ Village of Fowltown in Bainbridge Georgia along the Flint river

[@CoreyT127]

That map at 30 second mark had mountains in Florida?

[@merty55]

I've lived in florida for 20 years and never saw mountains.

[@jefeman506]

He needs a lot more research I'm Seminole and Cherokee. It's no such thing as black Seminole it's just Seminole

[@grimnoob893]

Yea. The whole western seeing of people as "whites", "blacks", "latinos", "asians", etc. is stupid

[@xvalkyra]

I could be wrong, but to my understanding from what I have been taught in my college level African Studies class, was that they are two different groups. The Black Seminoles are a community of both runaway African slaves and Seminoles that allied together. They are also referred to as Native-American Africans.

[@jefeman506]

@@xvalkyra black isn’t a race and yes there are 2 tribes of Seminole Florida and Oklahoma area. It’s so much I can help you out on but too much to text. Just a little advice while some are still here talk to some elders and do your research.

[@kenkin1814]

Now the white washed red Seminole trying to exclude the black Seminole 🤦🏽‍♂️,I know Osceola shaking his head

[@KnowledgeOverIndoctrination]

Osceola was a white man. Look it up. He was a white man from three generations on his father side.

[@paparuth6839]

How about Abraham? 300 set it off, 300 stood trial and were enslaved and 300 finally made it out. It’s a beautiful story. We are the Exiles. Since 1750

[@steveking5168]

Facts!!!!!

[@WeBoogie28]

Funny cuz they were saying this guy on the photo was the 1st mayor of Los Angeles

[@123itisnotme]

Never heard of this before

[@whoknowsidont.5147]

Is anyone else tired of hearing about this history this is ridiculous how they treat people human beings slaughtered for no reason other than greed not okay it must stop on our watch

[@XianKai]

Not so much tired of it just angry that people want us to forget it. It has been covered up and and/watered down. Why is it everyone gets to know their heritage and ancestry except Black people? Bust it wide open and let everyone know the truth. The past was evil, brutal, and uncaring. Some of those systems created in the past are what we are dealing with today. The brutality and economic murder still goes on just because of greed and skin color.

[@whoknowsidont.5147]

@@XianKai let me be clear...." keep it coming " Keith Sweat said it best..,but I am tired of them continually creating the same stuff over and over. To where this is still our future and our history..talk about the truth the past but please let's protect ou future..

[@darlingjessie9965]

AMERICA:The laughing stock of the Universe!

[@johntaylor7371]

i aint from africa im from crenshaw mafia

[@goodmeasure777]

@john taylor, Lol. Shout out to Boyz N The Hood.

[@realspilltv4494]

Didn’t learn anything like this in school

[@konvosationblak9640]

You do know that the original Indians were black. Then they were whited out. It's what you have today, the $5 Indian. This is wrong from the beginning. The photo that you are using are not Indians. lol 😂 Oh well I guess this what happens when WS ain't on code.

[@fatimacoronado7408]

Same

[@justtrust426]

Heartbreaking no matter how you look at it.

[@terancegault2558]

You'll good today

[@theideabank8797]

The returns

[@theideabank8797]

Everybody can't go to school together some of us have to work

[@PaulanCollins7585]

Remember this story.of the resavior..

[@akkam10]

Misinformation

[@jefferybarnes7472]

B1

[@smartdoctorphysicist3095]

Hi if I remember that was started in 1740 and it ended in 1859, a 119 years and the US never win that war. Just to let you know.

[@MegaAli213]

Never let, others yell your history, especially those who have perpetrated the worst human rights violations and savage atrocious atrocities upon us for centuries in the name of European civilization, a borrowed reality from Islamic civilization itself.

[@Vonnie777]

So sad! Man inhumanity to man!

[@dragontiger6923]

Indigenous 3 ways aka Native but not Northern . Producto of the diaspora. Culturally mixed & beautiful 🙏🏾✊🏾. DNA test and feel your ancestors journey. A lot of US have surnames that were LOST .

[@raefblack7906]

Always were using force to steal captives.

[@Torryhankton]

Real #blackhistory

[@robbiekumeso]

IM HERE AFTER LIL YACHTY ALBUM

[@chuanmyers4982]

People who have their own versions of history and black people you really hear the black people tell the story

[@ianiglesias1262]

many errors, wrong pictures and, mispronunciations. not carefully researched.

[@user-kp2rf2ph8j]

😔

[@dean3337]

That is not a photo of a Black Seminole. That is a photo of Pio Pico who of African DNA. He was a Governor of CA who was of Latin Descent... I am a Descendant of the Black Seminoles ( Freedman Citizen) Dosar Barkus Band of Black Seminoles.. Seminole Nation Of Oklahoma. Many idiots do not know of our history of my ancestors who forcibly removed from the Everglades of Florida with the full blood Seminoles to Ft Gibson Indian Territory (Oklahoma) after the 3rd Seminole War in 1838-1849... My Ancestors arrived in Wewoka and Sasakwa before Oklahoma Statehood in 1907.. We are documented at the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City...

[@FeleciaWilliams-gt6zd]

My family is black Seminoles Blackfoot in Florida.

[@anthonyjohnson6790]

All the original Indians are copper colored

[@Ramon51650]

Then how do you explain the Mapuche, the Chachapoya and Cristóbal Colón's extensive descriptions in the log of his 1st voyage?

[@anthonyjohnson6790]

@Lori jallissa Springberg nobody is black don’t be so dumb it’s a legal term

[@anthonyjohnson6790]

@ThirdeyeStrike nobody is black anybody thinks otherwise is stupid

[@crazando]

Some Seminoles fought with the Confederacy such as John Jumper

[@dnleon9921]

John Jumper thought they could get an Indian state if the sided with the Confederacy. A lot of Seminole deserted the Confederates and many joined the Union in the first place under Creek chief Opothle Yoholo and fled to Kansas. They also didn't mention is that chief Wildcat and his Seminoles went to Mexico with Chief John horse and his Black Seminoles.

[@crazando]

@@dnleon9921 okay and?

[@dnleon9921]

@@crazando im jus saying why they fought for the Confeds.

[@crazando]

@@dnleon9921 they fought for the confederates because they were moderately loyal considering it was for the both of them

[@dnleon9921]

@@crazando John Jumper thought if he sided with the Confederates they could get an indian state.

[@cdb88]

Ok theres kind of a lot of wrong information in here.

[@karlyost4732]

The Bible says that men's ❤️ hearts will fail them for fear 😂 for the things that are coming apon the whole world and are you going to be ready amen and read Matthew 24 and 25 allso and then John 3 16 then revaluation allso and then Daniel allso and read Isaiah chapters 33 34 35 even so come quickly Lord Jesus ❣️ Christ amen and read 1&2 Timothy and then Ezekiel chapters 33 34 35 and chapters 11 12 13 14 15 16 then Psalms 91 92 and then 119,

[@ptballers4life]

Can you go before 1619 or 1865 to give us history lessons? We as black people weren't all slaves. In reality, many of us were FreeMen and FreeWomen on this land. Many of us were here before any other nation of people arrived on this land. The narrative for us always starts and ends with being captured, going into slavery, then being emancipated. America does not want to recognize the true indigenous black people of this land and this video seems to substantiate that position.

[@ptballers4life]

@Lori jallissa Springberg 🤣😂🤣😂

[@ptballers4life]

@Lori jallissa Springberg what school taught you that? Oh, mb, wikipedia. The Paleo indian period is from 12,000 bc to 10,000 bc. Africans were found to be Master shipbuilders as recent as 20,000 bc. Africans not only came before Columbus and Clovis, but were in the Americans far before any other group, at least 60,000 years ago. We are the indigenous people of this land and planet.

[@AudranER]

Genesis 11:1-9 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

[@arismader1270]

hello lil yachty fans album of the year

[@JessicaGarcia-oj3pc]

It's all so very sad how other nationalities were mistreated. Makes me ashamed of my own race.

[@MoonHawk01]

Black Seminole is only a term for the ones who left Florida to go to Oklahoma in Florida you are just a Seminole and they are blood citizens of the tribe it’s sad they split us up when they left Fl

[@msrenee7023]

Those people were mixed not African

[@dommaybe]

Go bucs ☠

[@SharisVoice]

Sir, you need to RESEARCH. 'BLACK PPL" were here far before slavery, however you say they are there because of slavery. smh. I hope this video which is false, gets deleted.

[@kuyaboy1679]

Fairy tale

[@dordot7030]

they were not black Seminoles, just Seminoles

[@Salomessanctuary]

History is our story. President Obama .🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@arobrobinson6084]

These mfers been good at erasing history

[@BaxxAcademy]

It’s called the Gullah wars and they kicked the us ass bro lol which is what ended slavery

[@karlforbes2787]

K.Forbes.white men never talk true indian say him have fork 😮tongue.

[@lottiespence2614]

⚫️...really!?! Peace

[@macholliday2996]

the people who put this video story need to get their PICTURES straight...there were Plains Indians and even it looked like Taurigs included and labeled as Native American Indians....this is in part WHY people have such screwy ideas re NAI's

[@indingobolware-ps9xx]

O si yo Hello Cherokee Alot of false information here Soon as I heard the voice. Side eye

[@geraldmyers3660]

BLM @

[@phyllispayne8338]

This video is full of lies. The " black Seminoles ?" They were the only Seminoles.

[@michaelgraham6959]

Rubbish

[@abovebeyondandforever6571]

One of the lost tribes of ISRAEL!!

[@sharaudramey9336]

This channel is not trustworthy!!!!

[@TecumsehSherman36]

STORIES LIKE THESE GIVE RISE TO AFROCENTRISTS TO THINK THEY WERE THE FIRST "INDIANS" IN THE NEW WORLD...

[@dnleon9921]

Im black and I dont think were indigenous to America. Still this is facts. And these people deserve recognition for there part in Seminole history. 2 thousand Seminoles have Black Dna out of 18 thousand. Thats 1 out of 9 Seminoles. They did t get the black dna due to them being here first but do to my people fleeing to thier villages. We came over on slave ships. These people need to be aknowleged.

[@thunderbear4254]

White people- My great great grandmother was Cherokee Black people- My great great grandmother was Seminole 🥴🥴🥴

[@michaelmitchjrTOOTPAP]

This video is 🧢