The Cana sanctuary : history, diplomacy, and Black Catholic marriage in antebellum St. Augustine, Florida / Frank Marotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marotti, Frank, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fugitive slaves--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

Fugitive slaves.

African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Florida--Saint Augustine--Politics and government.

Diplomacy--Social aspects--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

Diplomacy.

African American Catholics--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

African American Catholics.

African Americans--Marriage--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Race relations--History.

Saint Augustine (Fla.).

Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Church history.

Florida--History--1821-1865.

Florida.

Catholic Church--Florida--Saint Augustine--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in the path of an expanding American empire. In the late seventeenth century a group of about a dozen escaped African slaves from the English colony of Carolina reached the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. In a diplomatic bid for sanctuary, to avoid extradition and punishment, th

Contents:

"The Good Old Flag of Spain"

"Jackasses of the Lion"

Barbarians at the Gates

Prince's Black Company

Prophets of the Apocalypse

The Notorious Andrew Gue

The Cana Sanctuary.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8606-8

OCLC:

781626377