Excerpt, Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her Four Female Children

Author

Mary Godfrey
Keith Lewis Simmons

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Publication Date

1-1-1836

Abstract

"An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War, attributed to Mary Godfrey (1836), details the horrors of an African and Indian rampage along the Florida frontier, and was hawked with graphic foldouts of the carnage. Two thirds of the text deals with escalating skirmishes leading up to the Second Seminole War; the information concerning the war is relatively accurate, the details of successive disputed treaties are repeated from the perspective of the white invaders, however, and the 'savages,' are consistently portrayed as intent on a “war of extermination” against the innocent settlers."

Keywords

Seminole, Slavery, African Americans, Second Seminole War (1835-1842)

Extent

5 pages

Original Language

English

Language

English

Media Type

Excerpts

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

EVF_0046

Type

Article

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Godfrey, Mary and Simmons, Keith Lewis, "Excerpt, Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and her Four Female Children" (1836). Early Visions Bucket. 46.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/early_visions_bucket/46