Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War.

Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War.

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Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South.Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older south...

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Author / Creator: Baptist, Edward E.
Other Authors / Creators:Wood, Mathew T.
Baptist, Edward E.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Plantation life > Florida > History > 19th century.
Whites > Florida > Social conditions > 19th century.
Plantation owners > Florida > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Florida > Social conditions > 19th century.
Social classes > Florida > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Florida.
Land settlement > Social aspects > Florida > History > 19th century.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Origins and Outcomes
  • Notes
  • 1. The Peculiar Benefits of Florida
  • Notes
  • 2. Countrymen
  • Notes
  • 3. Forced Migration
  • Notes
  • 4. Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida
  • Notes
  • 5. Jack in the New Ground
  • Notes
  • 6. Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire
  • Notes
  • 7. White Men Are Very Uncertain
  • Notes
  • 8. Creating an Old South
  • Notes
  • 9. Remaking History
  • Notes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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