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Heaven's soldiers [[electronic resource] ] : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / / Frank Marotti



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Autore: Marotti Frank <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heaven's soldiers [[electronic resource] ] : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / / Frank Marotti Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina: 306.3/620975918
Soggetto topico: Free African Americans - Florida - Saint Johns County - History - 19th century
Free African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Florida - Saint Johns County - History - 19th century
Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Florida - Saint Johns County - History - 19th century
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
Soggetto geografico: Saint Johns County (Fla.) History 19th century
Florida History 1821-1865
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 permitted
Titolo autorizzato: Heaven's soldiers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8653-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786120403321
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Serie: Atlantic crossings.