Go south to freedom

By Frye Gaillard

Subjects: United states, history, fiction, Seminole Indians, African Americans, Slavery, fiction, Black Seminoles, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Relations with Indians, Children's fiction, Underground Railroad, Juvenile fiction, Free African Americans

Description: As Gaillard's narrative makes clear, the Seminole Wars of the 1830s, in which Indians fought side by side with former slaves, represents the largest slave uprising in American history. Gaillard also puts a human face on the story of free blacks before the Civil War and the lives they painfully built for themselves in Mobile.