- May 6, 2013
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Honoring John Horse, Black Seminole, and the 1000 black slaves who rose up in Florida, burned 21 of the richest plantations in the world at the time to the ground and joined John Horse in fighting the U.S. Army to a standstill. The Black Seminoles won their freedom on the battlefield; 20 years later, Abe Lincoln used their "battlefield freedom" documents as his legal precedent to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.