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Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War /

Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an "Old", changeless South which only papered over the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baptist, Edward E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins and Outcomes
  • The Peculiar Benefits of Florida
  • Countrymen
  • Forced Migration
  • Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida
  • Jack in the New Ground
  • Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire: The Crisis of Middle Florida
  • White Men Are Very Uncertain: Slavery and Frontier Society
  • Creating an Old South
  • Remaking History Conclusion.