AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.17 African Americans in Indigenous Territory
Notes
Some African Americans lived among Native nations: as enslaved people of some Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek slaveholders, as allies, or as members (Black Seminoles). Removal (the Trail of Tears) included enslaved Black people.
Practice
The Black Seminoles were:
Florida.
Some Native nations in the Southeast, like the Cherokee:
Complex relationships.
During Indian Removal, some enslaved African Americans:
Trail of Tears.
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