Jamie Holmes
Writer and author of The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War, known for archival narrative nonfiction and deep research into historical subjects.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 1h 54min
Ep. 832: Osceola, Native American Slavery, and The Seminole Wars
Jamie Holmes, author of The Free and the Dead and archival narrative nonfictionist, joins to unpack Osceola, Abraham, and the Black Seminoles. He describes deep archival detective work and the tangled histories of Seminole formation, slavery, and guerrilla warfare in interior Florida. The conversation highlights contested events like Osceola’s capture and the long, costly Seminole Wars.
