LEADER 03125nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910462881303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8653-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340129 035 $a(EBL)1153512 035 $a(OCoLC)831118445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11943625 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10806694 035 $a(PQKB)10429848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1153512 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19096 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1153512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678105 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340129 100 $a20121115d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeaven's soldiers$b[electronic resource] $efree people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida /$fFrank Marotti 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 225 1 $aAtlantic crossings 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1784-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLooking 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. 330 $aHeaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations in pre-Civil War East Florida to the area's Spanish heritage. While acknowledging the importance of that heritage, this book gives more than the usual emphasis to the role of African American agency in exploiting the limited opportunities that such a heritage permitted 410 0$aAtlantic crossings. 606 $aFree African Americans$zFlorida$zSaint Johns County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFree African Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$zFlorida$zSaint Johns County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlaves$xEmancipation$zFlorida$zSaint Johns County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSeminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 607 $aSaint Johns County (Fla.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aFlorida$xHistory$y1821-1865 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFree African Americans$xHistory 615 0$aFree African Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aSlaves$xEmancipation$xHistory 615 0$aSeminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842. 676 $a306.3/620975918 700 $aMarotti$b Frank$f1954-$01047300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462881303321 996 $aHeaven's soldiers$92474793 997 $aUNINA