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Heaven's soldiers : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / Frank Marotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marotti, Frank, 1954-
- Series:
- Atlantic crossings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--Florida--Saint Johns County--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Florida--Saint Johns County--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Florida--Saint Johns County--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons.
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Saint Johns County (Fla.)--History--19th century.
- Saint Johns County (Fla.).
- Florida--History--1821-1865.
- Florida.
- Florida--Saint Johns County.
- Physical Description:
- x, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817317843
- 0817317848
- OCLC:
- 794036178
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