 | Augustus Lynch Mason - 1904 - 660 pagine
...alone continued the pretense of belief in it. CHAPTER XIV. THE SORROWS OF THE SEMINOLES. ]MI a negro, a slave? My skin is dark, but not black. I am an Indian...him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall smell of his bones, and the buzzard shall live upon his flesh." Where, when, and by whom was expression given... | |
 | Augustus Lynch Mason - 1904 - 710 pagine
...alone continued the pretense of belief in it. CHAPTER XIV. THE SORROWS OF THE SEMINOLES. |MI a negro, a slave? My skin is dark, but not black. I am an Indian...him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall smell of his bones, and the buzzard shall live upon his flesh." Where, when, and by whom was expression given... | |
 | Caroline Mays Brevard - 1904 - 300 pagine
...to sell them any more. This made them very angry. "Am I a negro? Am I a slave ? " cried Osceola. " My skin is dark, but not black, I am an Indian, a Seminole ! " About this time he came often to General Thompson's headquarters at Fort King, behaving so insolently... | |
 | Edson Leone Whitney, Frances Melville Perry - 1904 - 252 pagine
...skin is dark, but not black. I am a red man, a Seminole. The white man shall not treat me as if I were black. I will make the white man red with blood and then let him grow black in the sun and rain." His language became so violent that General Thompson ordered... | |
 | Caroline Mays Brevard - 1924 - 334 pagine
...declaration of war. When Osceola was told that he could get no more powder, he cried : Am I a negro? — a slave? My skin is dark, but not black. I am an Indian — aSeminole. The white man shall not make me black. I will make the white man red with blood, and... | |
 | Lyn Wilkerson - 2000 - 737 pagine
...ammunition to the Indians. Thereupon the colorful Indian leader, Osceola, declared: 'Am I a Negro — a slave? My skin is dark, but not black. I am an Indian...him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall smell of his bones, and the buzzard live upon his flesh.' The following October, Osceola and his followers... | |
 | 210 pagine
...I would tonight cut the throat of every white man in Florida.' Later, the warrior Osceola declared: 'I will make the white man red with blood, and then...blacken him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall gnaw his bones antl the buzzard shall live on his flesh.' The Seminóles never Formally surrendered... | |
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I will make the white man red with blood, and then blacken him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall smell of his bones, and the buzzard shall live upon his flesh. 
