Talk:Billy Bowlegs
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[edit] Slave Ownership
In reading several accounts (primary and secondary) of the Native Americans in the Indian Territory in the late 1850s, there are numerous references to how many of the leading Indian landowners possessed numerous slaves to work their plantations, just as if they were in the South. Opothleyahola and others had hundreds of slaves. In my reference materials, there was a couple mentions of Billy Bowlegs and his daughters as being among these slaveowners. For a contemporary example (Harpers Weekly, 1858) of his slave ownership in Florida before he moved his clan to New Orleans, then on to Indian Territory, please see http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Florida/docs/b/bowlegs.htm Scott Mingus 12:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Florida in the Civil War cat
I included him in this cat as the Civil War Task Force has discussed categorizing officers and leaders by 1) state they were from (Florida in this case) and / or 2) state of the troops they led (Oklahoma). Bowlegs was a Floridian by birth and for most of his life, and fought on the side of the Union army in hopes of returning to Florida as a reward for his service. You may want to restore the cat to be in line with the rest of the Civil War guidelines. Just a thought... Scott Mingus 02:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
