Johanna July, a black Seminole, was born around 1857 in Nacimiento de Los Negros, the settlement established in Northern Mexico following the emigration of Indian and black Seminoles from the Indian Territory in 1849. During the 1870s, the U.S. Army was looking for translators and scouts who were familiar with the border country. Black Seminoles […]
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