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    After settler attacks on Indian

    After settler attacks on Indian towns, Indians based in began raiding settlements, purportedly at the behest of the Spanish. The led increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by that became known as the...
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    The Spanish, meanwhile

    The Spanish, meanwhile, encouraged slaves to flee the English-held and come to Florida, where they were converted to Roman Catholicism and given freedom. They settled in a buffer community north of St. Augustine, called the first completely black settlement in what became the United States...
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    Until the mid-twentieth century

    Until the mid-twentieth century, Florida was the least populous Southern state. In 1900 its population was only 528,542, of whom nearly 44 percent were African American.[14] The boll weevil devastated cotton crops, and early 20th century lynchings and racial violence caused a record number of...