The Seminoles trained under Nat Turner to encourage them to fight for their land in now Tallahassee, FL.
Most of the early Republicans were abolishonists. They abhorred the treatment of all slavery. In fact Abraham Lincoln the first Republican US President alloted "Liberia" to former slaves after emancipation. Often they worked with former slaves during the reconstruction. The Republican party changed it platform fairly recently-in the last 35 years because of WWII veterans returning to amerikkklan and in order for the white southerner's to maintain some way of economic life, they crossed over into the party. It was discovered how many of them were in the party after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Because the mayor of Memphis was a Republican.
Just because I'm an alumnae of Spelman College!!! The college was named "Spelman" because that was J.D. Rockafeller wife's maiden name. Bessie Strong Spelman's family had a "stopping place" for the Underground Railroad.
Oh, and the reason why Spelman didn't reach the "Seven Sisters" school status back in the early 1900's... J.D. Rockafeller and several of his friends were ready to make a "southern ivy league" college for women by donating millions of dollars to Spelman. In fact, all of the land around the school was own by Spelman and Rockafeller and he was ready to give it to the school. But in a meeting with numerous other HBCU presidents and officials, including Mary McLeod Bethune of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, FL, the thenpresident of Spelman, President Read, of Read Hall, said to Rockafeller in front of everybody, "No, no that's too much for "THEM"." Meaning that was too much for us Black folks...
Incidentally, that is not in a history book. But it is true because a primary source who was a president of an HBCU said that he was there when she said it. That's why WEB DuBois who was at Atlanta University, wanted nothing to do with Spelman. And he convinced, Julian Bond to do the same--The grandfather, not the one who's still living... Also, my primary source said the only reason why Manley, the husband, became president was because he was good friends with President Read at the time. And Benjamin Mays, the President of Morehouse didn't like President Manley at Spelman...
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