Black Society In Spanish Florida

Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067532
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Society in Spanish Florida written by Jane Landers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.

Author : Kathleen A. Deagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813013527
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Mose written by Kathleen A. Deagan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black experience as simply that of slavery, offering instead a rich and balanced view of the African-American experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.

Author : Jane Landers
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826323972
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives written by Jane Landers and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078535
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Or American? written by Leslie M. Alexander and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York

Author : Matthew J. Clavin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479837334
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Negro Fort written by Matthew J. Clavin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort’s inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles. Still, the battle was significant for another reason as well. During its existence, Negro Fort was a powerful symbol of black freedom that subverted the racist foundations of an expanding American slave society. Its destruction reinforced the nation’s growing commitment to slavery, while illuminating the extent to which ambivalence over the institution had disappeared since the nation’s founding. Indeed, four decades after declaring that all men were created equal, the United States destroyed a fugitive slave community in a foreign territory for the first and only time in its history, which accelerated America’s transformation into a white republic. The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.

Author : Jane G. Landers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813017723
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida written by Jane G. Landers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. The essays trace the relationship of Florida to the Caribbean and Atlantic economies.

Author : Frank Marotti
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317848
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven's Soldiers written by Frank Marotti and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the community of free African Americans who lived in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.

Author : Frank W. Sweet
Publisher : Backintyme
ISBN 13 : 9780939479146
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invasion of Spanish Florida written by Frank W. Sweet and published by Backintyme. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher : Pineapple PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781561641819
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Americans in Florida written by Kevin M. McCarthy and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and culture of various Native American tribes in Florida, addressing such topics as mounds and other archeological remains, languages, reservations, wars, and European encroachment.

Author : Gene Allen Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1137310081
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slaves' Gamble written by Gene Allen Smith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and original look at American slavery in the early nineteenth century that reveals the gamble slaves had to take to survive Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In the century's first two decades, the nation waged war against Britain, Spain, and various Indian tribes. Slaves played a role in the military operations, and the different sides viewed them as a potential source of manpower. While surprising numbers did assist the Americans, the wars created opportunities for slaves to find freedom among the Redcoats, the Spaniards, or the Indians. Author Gene Allen Smith draws on a decade of original research and his curatorial work at the Fort Worth Museum in this fascinating and original narrative history. The way the young nation responded sealed the fate of slaves for the next half century until the Civil War. This drama sheds light on an extraordinary yet little known chapter in the dark saga of American history.