# Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/forgotten-rebellion-black-seminoles-largest-slave-revolt-us-history>

**By** Amy Sturgis

**Published:** March 23, 2012

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The story of John Horse and the Black Seminoles has been largely untold, but they deserve to be remembered for a number of reasons:

\- They created the largest haven in the U.S. South for runaway slaves.  
\- They led the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.  
\- They secured the only emancipation of rebellious slaves prior to the U.S. Civil War.  
\- The formed the largest mass exodus of slaves across the United States and, ultimately, to Mexico.

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