Indian resistance provided the example African slaves followed into Florida

Evidence

The efforts of the Carolinians to enslave the Indians, brought with them the natural and appropriate penalties. The Indians soon began to make their escape from service to the Indian country. This example was soon followed by the African slaves, who also fled to the Indian country, and, in order to secure themselves from pursuit, continued their journey into Florida. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 706

Categorization

• XREF: The joint African-Indian marronage complicates a purely Black lineage of resistance — a cross-racial formation relevant to how the reader maps the tradition’s origins.