This book challenges contemporary scholars to to redress fundamental misconceptions lodged in the heart of American historiography:

· That there was no significant collective resistance to or struggle against slavery by captured Africans who had been forcibly immigrated to the United States from the mother continent

· That the Seminole Wars were simply another set of Indian wars, rather than wars which marked the collective African resistance to the enslavement system

· That the records of the period (official documents, newspaper records, etc.) were accurate descriptions of fact, rather than censored materials produced in wartime, with a view to enhancing public support and calming public fears

· That self-liberated Africans mostly fled northward to freedom, rather than southward to the free territories of Georgia and Florida.