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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789949503321

Autore

Marotti Frank <1954->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8606-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009759/18

Soggetti

Fugitive slaves - Florida - Saint Augustine - History

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

African Americans - Florida - Saint Augustine - Politics and government

Diplomacy - Social aspects - Florida - Saint Augustine - History

African American Catholics - Florida - Saint Augustine - History

African Americans - Marriage - Florida - Saint Augustine - History

Saint Augustine (Fla.) Race relations History

Saint Augustine (Fla.) Church history

Florida History 1821-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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