Black and blood Seminoles have intermarried over the generations.
Black Seminoles inclined toward a syncretic form of Christianity developed during the plantation years.
As a result, the Black Seminole were always at risk from slave raiders.
During the year before the war, prominent white citizens captured and claimed as fugitive slaves at least 100 Black Seminoles.
The town remains the spiritual center of the Texas-based Black Seminoles.
It was not until the 1950s that the Black Seminole were officially recognized in the constitution.
Just twenty-seven Black Seminoles were allowed to remain at the fort but only until the elders of the group had departed.
Horse returned to Texas with a number of Black Seminoles to work as scouts.
They and the Black Seminoles moved into central and southern Florida.
Some of the Black Seminoles, as they were called, became important tribal leaders.