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Descendants of people of African descent who were enslaved
Ethnic group
Freedmen
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Oklahoma
and
Texas
,
United States
;
Coahuila
,
Mexico
;
Andros Island
,
Bahamas
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American English
,
African American Vernacular English
,
Mexican Spanish
,
Afro-Seminole Creole
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Diverse
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Mascogos
,
Cherokee Freedmen
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Black Seminoles
,
Creek Freedmen
,
Choctaw freedmen
African Americans
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Seminoles
,
Choctaw
,
Chickasaw
,
Cherokee
,
Muscogee
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The term
Freedmen
refers to descendants of people of African American descent who were enslaved by the
Five Civilized Tribes
.
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(They often overlap with those who are descended from those enslaved African descendants who voluntarily joined the Seminole nation, including those who fled from the Seminole Nation, when it adopted the practice of slavery, to Mexico, today known as
Mascogos
.
[
citation needed
]
)
Regarding Freedmen, both enslaved and free, who were amongst these tribes, they, too, were forcibly deported alongside members of the tribes from the now-Southeastern United States westward to Oklahoma along the
Trail of Tears
.
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