Anonymous, from Slave Songs of the United States

Sarah Allen, Narrative of a Shipwreck

Eunice Barber, Narrative of the Tragical Death of Mr. Darius Barber and His Seven Children 

Francois-René de Chateaubriand, Atala

Mary Godfrey, An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War

John Howison, “The Florida Pirate”

Nathan S. Jarvis, An Army Surgeon’s Notes on Frontier Service

William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida

Mary Smith, An Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Mary Smith

Selected Authors, Seminole War Poetry

• Josephine, “Osceola”
• Anonymous, “OSEOLA”
• H., “To the memory of Lieutenant John W. S. McNeil, of the United States Army, who fell in an engagement with the Seminole Indians, near St. Augustine, Florida, September 10, 1837.”
• Walt Whitman, “Osceola”