The Seminole Freedmen: A History Juvenile Nonfiction Disability Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts African American & Black You will close the book

You will close the book with an understanding that history and culture play a role in shaping systems of power and of what we can do with our strengths

a seven-year-old Black girl

This story

In his desire to win the game

But when she’s told she’s ineligible to compete in the school’s essay contest

The Seminole Freedmen: A History Juvenile Nonfiction Disability Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts African American & Black You will close the bookPopularly known as Black Seminoles, descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of Seminole black identity and community from their eighteenth century