Illustration for page 25, The American
Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, Vol. I, No. 4).
Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University.
Caption:
When monarchical Spain governed Florida, many slaves fled thither
from republican oppression, and found shelter. One of them, having
married an Indian chief, their FREEBORN daughter
became the wife of Oceola. She was seized as a slave, in 1835, by a
person, (who had probably never seen her,) holding the claim of her
mother's former master. Oceola attempted to defend his wife, but was
overpowered and put in irons, by General Thompson, (our government
agent,) who commanded the kidnapping party. What marvel that an
Indian Chief, as he looked on his little daughter, and thought of his
stolen wife, vowed vengeance on the robbers?
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