A powerful and stirring story. San Antonio Express-News

An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would without exaggeration defeat armed forces both white and Indian, make possible settlement of the West, earn the country s highest military honors, and have nothing to show for it. Miami Herald

This fascinating story chronicles the lives of fugitive slaves who aligned themselves with Seminole Indians in Florida beginning in the early 1800s, fought with them in the Second Seminole War, and were removed, along with them to Indian Territory,...