GIDDINGS (Joshua R.)
The Exiles of Florida: or, the crimes committed by our government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, seeking protection under Spanish Law.
SOLIDARITY BETWEEN INDIGENOUS AMERICANS AND ENSLAVED AFRICANS
“This treatise, written by the celebrated advocate of the abolition of slavery, is a glowing arraignment of the government of the United States for its complicity in the outrages perpetrated upon the Seminoles, in the interests of the slaveholders of Florida. The heroic Indians of the hummocks defied for a quarter of a century the armies of the United States, and to the shame of that government, it only succeeded in conquering them by the foulest treachery, and the most shameless violation of their plighted word by generals of the United States army. The long and bloody war, in which every captured and slain Indian cost the lives of more than fifty white soldiers, and an expenditure of one hundred and forty thousand dollars, originated in the seizure of the handsome wife of the Chief Osceola, and her sale into slavery. The war thus begun in treachery was only ended by it. General Jessup having pledged his word of honor to Osceola, foully violated it, and threw him into prison where he died” (Field).
Sabin, 27327; Field, 606.
