Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor /

In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874)--a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state--from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart's life and career, Brown o...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Brown, Canter, Jr., 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:Southern biography series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Hart, Ossian Bingley, > -1874.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Governors > Florida > Biography.
Florida > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The Harts in Florida
  • A frontier childhood
  • Kate Campbell and Fort Pierce
  • Tallahassee politics and the hurricane of 1846
  • Key West
  • Railroads and a new home at Tampa
  • The death of Adam
  • The destruction of the Union
  • Civil War
  • A disturbing peace
  • The Freedman's Bureau and a truly loyal party
  • A Republican, not a Union, party
  • The power of the carpetbag
  • A tumultuous Republican ascendancy
  • Associate Justice Hart
  • Disillusionment
  • Triumph
  • Governor Hart
  • Passing.

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