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| title | : | Slavery in Florida : Territorial Days to Emancipation |
| author | : | Rivers, Larry E. |
| publisher | : | University Press of Florida |
| isbn10 | asin | : | 0813018137 |
| print isbn13 | : | 9780813018133 |
| ebook isbn13 | : | 9780813024929 |
| language | : | English |
| subject | Slavery--Florida--History, Plantation life--Florida--History, Slaves--Florida--Social conditions, Florida--Race relations. | |
| publication date | : | 2000 |
| lcc | : | E445.F6R58 2000eb |
| ddc | : | 975.9004/96 |
| subject | : | Slavery--Florida--History, Plantation life--Florida--History, Slaves--Florida--Social conditions, Florida--Race relations. |
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SLAVERY IN FLORIDA
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Territorial Days to Emancipation
Larry Eugene Rivers
University Press of Florida
Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton
Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville Ft. Myers
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Copyright 2000 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
05 04 03 02 01 6 5 4 3
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rivers, Larry E., 1950
Slavery in Florida: territorial days to emancipation/Larry Eugene
Rivers.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1813-7 (acid-free paper)
1. SlaveryFloridaHistory. 2. Plantation lifeFloridaHistory.
3. SlavesFloridaSocial conditions. 4. FloridaRace relations.
I. Title.
E445.F6 R58 2000
975.900496dc21 00-034415
The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency
for the State University System of Florida, comprising Florida
A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast
University, Florida International University, Florida State
University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida,
University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and
University of West Florida.
University Press of Florida
Northwest th Street
Gainesville, FL 32611
http://www.upf.com
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With love and gratitude
to my wife and sons
Betty Jean, Larry Omar, and Linje Rivers
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List of Figures | viii |
List of Maps | x |
Preface | xi |
1. Racial Contact and the African Presence, 15001845 | |
2. On Middle Floridas Large Plantations | |
3. On Middle Floridas 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 |
Page viii
1. Juan Garrido, a free African-born explorer | 50 |
| 2. The free black village of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose | 50 |
| 3. Handmade eighteenth-century St. Christopher's medal | 51 |
| 4. An antebellum Tallahassee street scene during the 1830s | 51 |
| 5. John Finlayson | 52 |
| 6. Cotton cultivation and harvesting | 52 |
| 7. The process of cotton culture | 52 |
| 8. Slave women often performed the same fieldwork as men | 54 |
| 9. Slaves were compelled to undertake work such as plowing | 54 |
| 10. Onetime slave Creasy Lloyd of Narcoossee in Osceola County | 55 |
| 11. Lewis Hicks, a slave of the Robert Hendry family | 55 |
| 12. Four Hillsborough County pioneers who survived slavery | 56 |
| 13. Tampa Bay area African American pioneers, 1923 | 57 |
| 14. Dorcas Bryant | 57 |
| 15. A former slave family outside their cabin during the 1870s | 58 |
| 16. Robert Meacham, the mulatto son of Dr. Banks Meacham of Gadsden County | 59 |
| 17. Stella Meacham, wife of Robert Meacham | 59 |
| 18. Aunt Aggie and The Arch in the Boneyard | 60 |
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| 19. A slave sales receipt from Tallahassee, dated September 17, 1862 | 61 |
| 20. Abram Grant, who later served as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | 61 |
| 21. The Reverend James Page | 62 |
| 22. Thomas Warren Long | 62 |
| 23. An overseer attacks a woman with a paddle | 63 |
| 24. Material conditions for slaves varied from region to region in Florida | 64 |
| 25. Most of Florida's enslaved blacks lived in log cabins | 175 |
| 26. An Apalachicola man locked in the pillory for assaulting a white man | 175 |
| 27. Slaves played the banjo or fiddle at social gatherings of both whites and blacks | 176 |
| 28. Personal relationships sometimes crossed racial lines | 177 |
| 29. Corrie Davis, son of bond servant Rachel Davis and cattleman John Parker | 177 |
| 30. A nineteenth-century slave burial site | 178 |
| 31. Some slaves maintained African names, as indicated in this 1842 Leon County sales advertisement | 179 |
| 32. Abraham escaped from slavery and became the trusted adviser of the Seminole chief Micanopy | 180 |
| 33. Selina Rollins | 180 |
| 34. An artist's representation of John Horse, also called John Cavallo or Gopher John | 181 |
| 35. An 1850s drawing of a Florida delegation consisting of Seminoles and Black Seminoles | 181 |
| 36. Ben Bruno, like Abraham, served the Seminoles as an interpreter | 182 |
| 37. An early-twentieth-century representation of blacks and Seminoles together in Florida |
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