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The Black Seminoles: History of a FreedomSeeking People. By Kenneth W. Porter. Ed. by Alcione M. Amos and Thomas P. Senter. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xii, 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1451-4.)
In 1932, long before there was much interest in African American history on the frontier, Kenneth W. Porter published a pioneering study of Indian-black relations in the Journal of Negro History. Over the next thirty-five years, he produced an extensive body of scholarly articles on this subject. But Porter's most important work, dealing with the history of the Seminole maroons in Florida, Coahuila, and West Texas, was produced in the 1940s. In the years following, researchers working in the field awaited the master's magnum opus. Sadly, it never came.
Following his demise in...