Floridians were glad to see them go. If y'all out there want more, we can send those too.
The Black Seminoles played a major part in the Second Seminole War, which dragged on so long that the US resorted to taking Osceola, Wildcat and the Black Seminole John Horse prisoner by treachery under a flag of truce.
Horse, Wildcat and Osceola were all confined in the same room at Fort Marion. Wildcat and Horse starved themselves for three weeks so as to slip through the small window of the room, or so the story goes. Osceola was suffering the effects of the illness that killed him there and was unable to accompany them.
The two leaders eventually gained the support of General Jesup who was commanding on the US side and travelled to Washington, Horse twice.
All the more remarkable that these same two guys would become a force on the West Texas Plains.
