Second Seminole War
"The Death of Waxe-Hadjo." Engraving of the Second Seminole War by N. Orr, originally prepared for John Sprague's The Florida War, 1848.
Image courtesy of the State Archives of Florida
Native peoples and their African allies continued to fight against the expansion of the American plantation system after Florida became a United States territory in 1821. The Second Seminole War (1835–42) discouraged immigration to Florida, which lowered land values and contributed to the failure of the Union Bank. John Parkhill, the Union Bank cashier, was killed fighting in the war. Several Native American attacks on settlers occurred in the Tallahassee area, including in 1838 at the Green Chaires plantation, located near Lake Lafayette in eastern Leon County.
