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

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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Main Author: Marotti, Frank, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013
Series:Atlantic crossings.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central