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050 00 $aE185.93.F5$bC65 1995
082 00 $a975.9/00496073$220
100 1 $aColburn, David R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78086007
245 14 $aThe African American heritage of Florida /$cDavid R. Colburn, Jane L. Landers.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9504
300 $ax, 392 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction / David R. Colburn -- 2. Traditions of African American Freedom and Community in Spanish Colonial Florida / Jane L. Landers -- 3. African Religious Retentions in Florida / Robert L. Hall -- 4. "Yellow Silk Ferret Tied Round Their Wrists": African Americans in British East Florida, 1763-1784 / Daniel L. Schafer -- 5. A Troublesome Property: Master-Slave Relations in Florida, 1821-1865 / Larry E. Rivers -- 6. Blacks and the Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835 / George Klos -- 7. Freedom Was as Close as the River: African Americans and the Civil War in Northeast Florida / Daniel L. Schafer -- 8. LaVilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams and the Formation of a Black Community / Patricia L. Kenney -- 9. Black Violence in the New South: Patterns of Conflict in Late-Nineteenth-Century Tampa / Jeffrey S. Adler -- 10. No Longer Denied: Black Women in Florida, 1920-1950 / Maxine D. Jones -- 11. Under a Double Burden: Florida's Black Feeble-Minded, 1920-1957 / Steven Noll.
505 8 $a12. Groveland: Florida's Little Scottsboro / Steven F. Lawson, David R. Colburn and Darryl Paulson -- 13. The Pattern of Race Relations in Miami since the 1920s / Raymond A. Mohl.
520 $aAfricans participated in all the Spanish explorations and settlements in Florida, as they did throughout the Spanish Americas. In Florida they helped establish St. Augustine and the free black community of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Africans and African Americans fought in the many conflicts that wracked Florida, including the three Seminole Wars and the Civil War.
520 8 $aDespite the oppressions of slavery and segregation, black Floridians struggled to establish their own communities, combat racism and economic deprivation, and negotiate the terms of their labor. Against overwhelming odds, they helped develop communities like Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami, and they served as the critical labor force for the state's citrus, agricultural, and timber industries.
520 8 $aFor centuries, however, their rich and substantial heritage has been ignored.These twelve essays examine it, documenting African American contributions to Florida's history from the colonial era to the late twentieth century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zFlorida$xHistory.
651 0 $aFlorida$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049224
700 1 $aLanders, Jane.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89650280
852 00 $bglx$hE185.93.F5$iC65 1995