NBC News - A family celebrates Juneteenth in Mexico — where their Black ancestors first found freedom Corina Torralba Harrington, who is Mexican American, is a descendant of Black Seminoles — formerly enslaved Blacks who lived among Native Americans in Florida before going to Mexico.

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   Juneteenth has #Indigenous history. When Black people who escaped slavery in Florida joined the Seminole Tribe, they became Black Seminoles. They're also called Mascogos b/c they migrated to Mexico, where slavery was already abolished. The Mascogos built the town El Nacimiento in 1852, but still interacted with Seminoles in Texas who brought them Juneteenth in the 1870s. Black Seminoles in Mexico had to survive slavery, the Trail of Tears, & the US-Mexico Border to celebrate #juneteenth #history