The Seminole Freedmen: A History Juvenile Nonfiction Disability Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts African American & Black to the friends who have

to the friends who have never let her down

Stevenson's narrative is also unforgettable

But when she’s told she’s ineligible to compete in the school’s essay contest

a seven-year-old Black girl

The Seminole Freedmen: A History Juvenile Nonfiction Disability Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts African American & Black to the friends who havePopularly known as Black Seminoles, descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the historical relationship between Africans and Seminole Indians, he traces the emergence of Seminole black identity and community from their eighteenth century