By John K. Mahon
ISBN-10: 0813010977
ISBN-13: 9780813010977
Via the 3rd decade of the nineteenth century the growing to be American kingdom had increased up to now into the Florida peninsula that during 1832 a gaggle of Seminole tribal chiefs authorized the phrases of a treaty which supplied for the removing in their tribes to the West. Wiley Thompson was once appointed to oversee the migration.
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1 In the end, too, Spain saw that she must dispose of the Floridas for some advantage before they slipped away from her without any consideration whatever. " In reality, however, the clause appears to have been a sop to the conscience of his Catholic Majesty, for there was little likelihood that members of either of the dark races would be speedily admitted to United States citizenship. It would be unwise to remove him without providing another position suitable to his prestige. See Cullum, Biographical Register.
General or not, this was a big order. Blake in 1840. " That this was obviously not the language of diplomacy but rather of the strong to the weak was perfectly clear to the Seminoles.
By 1816 it was an effective stronghold, called the Negro Fort by the border folk. Spain, of * Giddings, Exiles, 38n, calls this the first slavecatching expedition in which the United States government ever engaged. Page 24 course, protested the violation of her soil, but lacked the power to do more. Porter, ''Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) in the Seminole Wars," FHQ, XLV (January, 1967), 219–42. The two campaigns so weakened the power of the Seminoles that they were not an effective obstacle when the United States procured Florida and began to occupy the territory.
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