This book challenges contemporary scholars to free the history of African Americans from the lexicon of enslavement, and to set the record of their struggle straight.  It attempts to redress fundamental misconceptions lodged in the heart of American historiography:

· That there was no significant collective resistance to or struggle against slavery by captured Africans who had been forcibly immigrated to the United States from the mother continent

· That the Seminole Wars were simply another set of Indian wars, rather than wars which marked the collective African resistance to the enslavement system

· That the records of the period (official documents, newspaper records, etc.) were accurate descriptions of fact, rather than censored materials produced in wartime, with a view to enhancing public support and calming public fears

· That self-liberated Africans mostly fled northward to freedom, rather than southward to the free territories of Georgia and Florida.

“The Invisible War will ignite a re-examination of the historic legacy of the Gullah/Geechees of the Sea Islands.”
–from the Foreword by QUEEN QUET, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation