An authentic narrative of the Seminole War : its cause, rise and progress, and a minute detail of the horrid massacres of the whites, by the Indians and Negroes, in Florida, in the months of December, January and February / communicated for the press by a gentleman who has spent eleven weeks in Florida, near the scene of the Indian depredations, and in a situation to collect every important fact relating thereto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanchard, Daniel F., publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian captivities--Florida.

Indian captivities.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southern States.

Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875.

Racism against Black people.

Racism against Indigenous peoples.

Seminole Indians--Florida--Government relations.

Seminole Indians.

Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.

Settler colonialism--Florida.

Settler colonialism.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Florida.

Southern States.

Genre:

Captivity narratives.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Kinyon(?), John S. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Hudson, Royal (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 pages, [1] leaf of folded plates : 1 illustration ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Seminole War

Place of Publication:

Providence : Printed for D.F. Blanchard, and others, publishers, 1836.

Notes:

"First edition, first issue"--Schimmel.

Woodcut title vignette (African-American man holding a hatchet facing a white woman, right hand upraised, and four children).

Frontispiece plate (24 x 55 cm, folded to 24 x 15 cm) with captions: Massacre of the Whites by the Indians and Blacks in Florida. The above is intended to represent the horrid Massacre of the Whites in Florida, in January, February and March, 1836, when near Four Hundred (including women and children) fell victims to the barbarity of the Negroes and Indians.

Reissued, with slight alterations, under title: A true and authentic account of the Indian War in Florida ... New York, 1836.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy: frontispiece plate partially hand-colored in red, green and yellow; woodcut title vignette partially hand-colored in red.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schmmel Collection copy has on verso of frontispiece plate early autograph ("John S. Kinyon[?]"), possibly of John S. Kinyon (1810-1890) of Rhode Island, in brown ink and autograph ("Royal Hudson"), possibly of Royal Carlton Hudson Sr. (1892-1962) or Royal Carlton Hudson Jr. (1936-2012).

Schimmel Collection copy bound in original paper wrappers (now pale red; back wrapper torn across lower portion and and mended); edges untrimmed.

Schimmel Collection copy: frontispiece plate detached.

Cited in:

Sabin 79063

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 22

OCLC:

1302358744