Heaven's soldiers : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida /

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This book chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marotti, Frank, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Colección:Atlantic crossings.
Temas:
1800-1899
Free African Americans > Florida > Saint Johns County > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Florida > Saint Johns County > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Florida > Saint Johns County > History > 19th century.
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
Noirs américains affranchis > Floride > Saint Johns > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Floride > Saint Johns > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Guerre contre les Séminoles, 2e, 1835-1842.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Free African Americans
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Saint Johns County (Fla.) > History > 19th century.
Florida > History > 1821-1865.
Floride > Histoire > 1821-1865.
Florida
Florida > Saint Johns County
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking backward and forward
  • The 1820s : anxious optimism
  • The 1830s : manumission, property, and family
  • The Second Seminole War
  • Restricted manumission, migrations, and antimiscegenation
  • Preserving Spanish days : marriage and manumission
  • The Black martial heritage
  • Land, paternalism, and laws.

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