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About this book
This important illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bond servants in Florida from 1821 to 1865, offering new insights from the perspective of both slave and master.
Starting with an overview of the institution as it evolved during the Spanish and English periods, Larry E. Rivers looks in detail and in depth at the slave experience, noting the characteristics of slavery in the Middle Florida plantation belt (the more traditional slave-based, cotton-growing economy and society) as distinct from East and West Florida (which maintained some attitudes and traditions of Spain). He examines the slave family, religion, resistance activity, slaves' participation in the Civil War, and their social interactions with whites, Indians, other slaves, and masters.
Rivers also provides a dramatic account of the hundreds of armed free blacks and runaways among the Seminole, Creek, and Mikasuki Indians on the peninsula, whose presence created tensions leading to the great slave rebellion, the Second Seminole War (1835-42).
Slavery in Florida is built upon painstaking research into virtually every source available on the subject--a wealth of historic documents, personal papers, slave testimonies, and census and newspaper reports. This serious critical work strikes a balance between the factual and the interpretive. It will be significant to all readers interested in slavery, the Civil War, the African American experience, and Florida and southern U.S. history, and it could serve as a comprehensive resource for secondary school teachers and students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface
- 1. Racial Contact and the African Presence, 1500–1845
- 2. On Middle Florida’s Large Plantations
- 3. On Middle Florida’s Small Plantations
- 4. In East and West Florida
- 5. The Family
- 6. Religion and Community
- 7. Material Conditions and Physical Treatment
- 8. Social Interaction Between Whites and Blacks
- 9. Social Interaction among Blacks
- 10. Interaction Between Blacks and Indians
- 11. Slave Resistance
- 12. Slavery and the Civil War
- 13. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index