The African American heritage of Florida / edited by David R. Colburn and Jane L. Landers. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colburn, David R.

Contributor:

Landers, Jane.

Colburn, David R.

Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Florida--History.

African Americans.

Florida--History.

Florida.

African Americans--History--Florida.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 392 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Africans participated in all the Spanish explorations and settlements in Florida, as they did throughout the Spanish Americas. In Florida they helped establish St. Augustine and the free black community of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Africans and African Americans fought in the many conflicts that wracked Florida, including the three Seminole Wars and the Civil War. Despite the oppressions of slavery and segregation, black Floridians struggled to establish their own communities, combat racism and economic deprivation, and negotiate the terms of their labor. Against overwhelming odds, they helped develop communities like Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami, and they served as the critical labor force for the state's citrus, agricultural, and timber industries. For centuries, however, their heritage has been ignored. These twelve essays examine the rich and substantial African American heritage of Florida, documenting African American contributions to the state's history from the colonial era to the late twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction, by David Colburn

Traditions of African American Freedom and Community in Spanish Colonial Florida, by Jane Landers

African Religious Retentions in Florida, by Robert L. Hall

"Yellow Silk Ferret Tied Round Their Wrists": African Americans in British East Florida, 1763-1784, by Daniel Schafer

A Troublesome Property: Master-Slave Relations in Florida, 1821-1865, by Larry Rivers

Blacks and the Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835, by George Klos

Freedom Was as Close as the River: African Americans and the Civil War in Northeast Florida, by Daniel Schafer

LaVilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams and the Formation of a Black Community, by Patricia Kenney

Black Violence in the New South: Patterns of Conflict in Late-Nineteenth-Century Tampa, by Jeffrey Adler

No Longer Denied: Black Women in Florida, 1920-1950, by Maxine Jones

Under a Double Burden: Florida's Black Feeble-Minded, 1920-1957, by Steven Noll

Groveland: Florida's Little Scottsboro, by Steven Lawson, David Colburn, and Darryl Paulson

The Pattern of Race Relations in Miami since the 1920s, by Raymond Mohl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2230-4