03111nam 2200637 a 450 991078612040332120230323234909.00-8173-8653-X(CKB)2670000000340129(EBL)1153512(OCoLC)831118445(SSID)ssj0000856233(PQKBManifestationID)11943625(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856233(PQKBWorkID)10806694(PQKB)10429848(MiAaPQ)EBC1153512(MdBmJHUP)muse19096(Au-PeEL)EBL1153512(CaPaEBR)ebr10678105(EXLCZ)99267000000034012920121115d2013 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrHeaven's soldiers[electronic resource] free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida /Frank MarottiTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (246 p.)Atlantic crossingsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1784-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations in pre-Civil War East Florida to the area's Spanish heritage. While acknowledging the importance of that heritage, this book gives more than the usual emphasis to the role of African American agency in exploiting the limited opportunities that such a heritage permittedAtlantic crossings.Free African AmericansFloridaSaint Johns CountyHistory19th centuryFree African AmericansLegal status, laws, etcFloridaSaint Johns CountyHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsEmancipationFloridaSaint Johns CountyHistory19th centurySeminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842Saint Johns County (Fla.)History19th centuryFloridaHistory1821-1865Free African AmericansHistoryFree African AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryEnslaved personsEmancipationHistorySeminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.306.3/620975918Marotti Frank1954-1559882MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786120403321Heaven's soldiers3825431UNINA