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

• Autore: Marotti Frank <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009759/18
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Saint Augustine (Fla.) Race relations History; Saint Augustine (Fla.) Church history; Florida History 1821-1865
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cana sanctuary
• ISBN: 0-8173-8606-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811406403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II