"Sorrows of the Seminoles"
Engraving, 19th-c., Florida Photographic Collection.

In July of 1842, John Horse and his young wife Susan sailed with a contingent of Seminole Indians from Tampa Bay to New Orleans, en route to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Out west, they joined 500 African American refugees who, despite U.S. Army promises, soon faced perilous circumstances. 

• Emigration: John Horse moves west for good
• Creek tensions greet the blacks out west
• Slide with full image credit

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