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Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War
Title
Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War.
Creator
Settle, John, Murphree, Daniel, Crepeau, Richard, Larson, Peter, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study examines in depth the most common interpretation of the opening of the Third Seminole War (1855-1858). The interpretation in question was authored almost thirty years after the beginning of the war, and it alleges that the destruction of a Seminole banana plant garden by United States soldiers was the direct cause of the conflict. This study analyzes the available primary records as well as traces the entire historiography of the Third Seminole War in order to ascertain how and why...
Show moreThis study examines in depth the most common interpretation of the opening of the Third Seminole War (1855-1858). The interpretation in question was authored almost thirty years after the beginning of the war, and it alleges that the destruction of a Seminole banana plant garden by United States soldiers was the direct cause of the conflict. This study analyzes the available primary records as well as traces the entire historiography of the Third Seminole War in order to ascertain how and why the banana garden account has had such an impactful and long-lasting effect. Based on available evidence, it is clear that the lack of fully contextualized primary records, combined with the failure of historians to deviate from or challenge previous scholarship, has led to a persistent reliance on the banana garden interpretation that continues to the present. Despite the highly questionable and problematic nature of this account, it has dominated the historiography on the topic and is found is almost every written source that addresses the beginning of the Third Seminole War. This thesis refutes the validity of the banana garden interpretation, and in addition, provides alternative explanations for the Florida Seminoles' decision to wage war against the United States during the 1850s.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005710, ucf:50116
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005710
THE WHITEMAN'S SEMINOLE:WHITE MANHOOD, INDIANS AND SLAVES, AND THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR
Title
THE WHITEMAN'S SEMINOLE:WHITE MANHOOD, INDIANS AND SLAVES, AND THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR.
Creator
Mahan IV, Francis, Cassanello, Robert, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study demonstrates that both government officials' and the settlers' perceptions of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles in Florida were highly influenced by their paternalistic and Jeffersonian world views. These perceptions also informed their policies concerning the Seminoles and Black Seminoles. The study is separated into three sections. The first chapter covers the years of 1820-1823. This section argues that until 1823, most settlers and government officials viewed the Seminoles as...
Show moreThis study demonstrates that both government officials' and the settlers' perceptions of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles in Florida were highly influenced by their paternalistic and Jeffersonian world views. These perceptions also informed their policies concerning the Seminoles and Black Seminoles. The study is separated into three sections. The first chapter covers the years of 1820-1823. This section argues that until 1823, most settlers and government officials viewed the Seminoles as noble savages that were dependent on the U.S. Furthermore, most of these individuals saw the Black Seminoles as being secure among the Seminole Indians and as no threat to white authority. The second chapter covers the years of 1823-1828 and demonstrates that during this time most settlers began to view Seminoles outside of the reservation as threats to the frontier in Florida. This reflected the Jeffersonian world view of the settlers. Government officials, on the contrary, continued to believe that the Seminole Indians were noble savages that were no threat to the frontier because of their paternal world view. Both groups by 1828 wanted the Seminoles and Black Seminoles separated. The final chapter covers the years of 1829-1836. It argues that by 1835 both settlers and government officials believed that the Seminoles and Black Seminoles were clear threats to the frontier because of the fear of a slave revolt and the beginning of Seminole resistance to removal. Most of the shifts in the perception of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles by government officials and the settlers were the result of their white gender and racial world views that then in turn affected their policies towards the Seminoles and Black Seminoles.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
CFE0003616, ucf:48866
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003616
anthropology of Florida
Title
The anthropology of Florida.
Creator
Hrdlicka, Ales, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Surveys archaeological sites containing Indian remains, concentrating on those found in southwest Florida. Gives an overview of the physical anthropology of the remains, along with comparisons to the physical measurements of populations in other parts of Florida and in other states.
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
AAA3361QF00012/20/200108/04/200515721BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-12-20, FIPS12015, FIPS12021, FIPS12071, FCLA url 20020614xOCLC, 50181421, CF00001579, 2564147, ucf:10152
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001579.jpg
Across the Everglades
Title
Across the Everglades: a canoe journey of exploration.
Creator
Willoughby, Hugh L. (Hugh Laussat), PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
An account of the author's exploratory trip across the southern Everglades including descriptions of places, people and wildlife. Throughout the narrative, the author makes reference to the methods used by the Seminoles for travel, cooking, etc., as well as describes some of their recent history and his encounters with them during this trip.
Date Issued
1898
Identifier
AAA6249QF00004/30/200302/09/200513204BfamIa D0QF, ONICF160- 5, FHP C CF 2003-04-30, FCLA url 20030714xOCLC, huc3090203, 52873655, CF00001592, 2568015, ucf:11989
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001592.jpg
war in Florida
Title
The war in Florida: being an exposition of its causes, and an accurate history of the campaigns of Generals Clinch, Gaines, and Scott.
Creator
Potter, Woodburne, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Army officer's account of the 2nd Seminole War, focusing on the specific campaigns of Colonel Joseph M. White, General Duncan L. Clinch, and Colonel James Gadsden, as well as an analysis of what the author believed to be the causes of the war.
Date Issued
1836
Identifier
AAA3366QF00012/20/200104/26/200722938BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-12-20, FCLA url 20020621xOCLC, 50182068, FIPS12039, CF00001580, 2564612, ucf:10377
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001580.jpg