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They helped the seminoles against the US. See: Black seminoles
The Second Seminole War began in 1835. By May of 1837, many of the tribe's chiefs had surrendered to American forces.
Billy Bowlegs
The Seminole Indians fought with the United States Army. In 1835 the Seminoles Defeated the United States Army in the Battle of Dade and started the Second Seminole War. In 1837 the Army captured Chief Osceola. 145 Indians were captured and shipped to Oklahoma. The rest of the Indians slipped into the everglades. They remained at war until the 1950s when after over a hundred years the United States Army gave up and paid the Seminoles an indemnity.
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They happened, because the south was afraid of an uprising from the runaway slaves joining with the Seminoles, and because the Seminoles refused to move off their land.
1835
1835-1842
Toledo War happened in 1835.
Shiners' War happened in 1835.
Escaped slaves
The Seminole...Beginning in 1835 , Seminoles in northern Florida had been fighting a war against settlers over the land....in 1836 the Seminoles, along with their free black friends, called the "Black Seminoles", attacked white-owned sugar plantations...the enslaved plantation workers joined them, striking back at their slave masters...They burned the sugar plantations to the ground and sugar was never again a viable product in northern Florida...The war between the Seminoles and the settlers lasted until 1842 without a clear victor...making the Seminole the most successful tribe to remain near their settlement....