Living Conditions

Under their lenient arrangements with the Indians, the Black Seminoles prospered. Lt. McCall recorded his impressions in 1826:

"We found these negroes in possession of large fields of the finest land, producing large crops of corn, beans, melons, pumpkins, and other esculent vegetables. [I] saw, while riding along the borders of the ponds, fine rice growing; and in the village large corn-cribs were filled, while the houses were larger and more comfortable than those of the Indians themselves."