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

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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Main Author: Marotti, Frank, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013
Series:Atlantic crossings.
Subjects:
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.
Saint Johns County (Fla.) > History > 19th century.
Florida > History > 1821-1865.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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