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John Horse, Black Seminole leader. John Horse (c. 1812–1882), [1] also known as Juan Caballo, Juan Cavallo, John Cowaya (with spelling variations) and Gopher John, [2] was a man of mixed African and Seminole ancestry who fought alongside the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War in Florida.
21 Ιαν 2007 · John Horse, also known as Juan Caballo, John Cowaya, or Gopher John was the dominant personality in Seminole Maroon affairs for half a century. He counseled Seminole leaders, served as an agent of the U.S. government, and became a Mexican Army officer.
Born in 1812 in Florida, John Horse (Juan Caballo, Juan Cavallo, and often Gopher John) rose to become one of the most successful black freedom fighters in American history. He was born into slavery and was of African-American, Indian, and Spanish descent.
While Porter's Black Seminoles documents nearly all of the known facts of John Horse's life, a few details were unknown to Porter at the time of his death in 1981. Mulroy adds new material on his life out west, while Canter Brown's research has yielded new clues about his life in Florida.
Explore the story of John Horse and the Black Seminoles, the first black rebels to beat American slavery and leaders of the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history —an original history written & designed for the Web.
United States Infantry first met a young man who they would never forget: John Horse, or Juan Cavallo. Spanish lineage was not only indicated by Horse's proper name, but it also showed that he had been a slave owned by a part Hispanic and Indian master in Florida. Certainly it was not the physical appearance of young John Horse that first ...
21 Σεπ 2021 · Forced to relocate, he led a group of Black Seminoles to find a new home, first heading westward to Texas and later to Mexico. Turner worked with descendants of Horse, who provided oral...
