Florida, described by one disgusted Army officer as "the poorest country that ever two people quarreled for," went to the victors. The Seminole Wars was the most costly Indian war in history costing the U.S an estimated 40 to 60 million dollars and the highest solider death count in an Indian War. The Seminoles were an Indian tribe made up of Creek Confederacy, mostly Creeks and Hitchiti, that settled into the Spanish territory of Florida. They were later joined by other refugee Indians and runaway slaves as a safe haven. Most black people who escaped to the Seminole Nation were escaped slaves and became a considerable portion of the Seminoles population. During the Seminole Wars, blacks fought fiercely against the U.S to avoid going back to white plantations and fall back into slavery. The considerable amount of blacks with in the Seminole Nation were all seen as runaway slave and a significant threat by white southerners. …show more content…
A primary example is when officials in Florida previously attempted to separate the Negros and Indians on the basis that the Negro were exerting on the Indians an alleged indolence however it was more prevalent that they desired cheap slaves from the separation of the Negro and Indians. Furthermore slave owners in Alabama and Georgia viewed all the black slaves among the Seminole as fugitive runaway slaves and, like many white southerner, wanted this sanctuary for blacks destroyed which motivate the black Seminoles and maroons to fight harder so they could enslavement. These owner primary goal was to separate the Negro and Seminoles so runaway slave did not a haven to escape to and to catch cheap slaves after they are