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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814128003321

Autore

Baptist Edward E

Titolo

Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War / / Edward E. Baptist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908725-2-4

0-8078-6003-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Disciplina

974.9/05

Soggetti

Plantation life - Florida - History - 19th century

Whites - Florida - Social conditions - 19th century

Plantation owners - Florida - History - 19th century

African Americans - Florida - Social conditions - 19th century

Social classes - Florida - History - 19th century

Frontier and pioneer life - Florida

Land settlement - Social aspects - Florida - History - 19th century

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 19th century

Florida History 1821-1865

Florida Race relations

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 (p. [351]-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Origins and Outcomes; 1. The Peculiar Benefits of Florida; 2. Countrymen; 3. Forced Migration; 4. Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida; 5. Jack in the New Ground; 6. Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire; 7. White Men Are Very Uncertain; 8. Creating an Old South; 9. Remaking History; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an "Old", changeless South which only papered over the struggles.