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The Florida Negro : A Federal Writers' Project Legacy
author
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McDonogh, Gary W.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
:
0878055886
print isbn13
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9780878055883
ebook isbn13
:
9780585212722
language
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English
subject
African Americans--Florida.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
E185.93.F5F57 1993eb
ddc
:
975.9/00496073
subject
:
African Americans--Florida.
Page iii
The Florida Negro
A Federal Writers' Project Legacy
Edited, With an Introduction, by Gary W. McDonogh
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI JACKSON AND LONDON
Page iv
Introduction and Afterword Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Florida Negro: a Federal Writers' Project legacy/edited, with an introduction by Gary W. McDonogh. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-588-6 1. Afro-AmericansFlorida. I. McDonogh, Gary W. II. Federal Writers' Project. E185.93.FF57 1992 975.9'00496073dc20 92-28493 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
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Contents
Introduction
vii
I. History
3
II. Slave Days in Florida
19
III. Sidelights on Slavery
31
IV. What the Florida Negro Does
39
V. Workaday Songs
44
VI. Amusements and Diversions
56
VII. Bolita
63
VIII. Folklore
71
IX. Hoodoo and Voodoo
81
X. Conjure Shop
85
XI. Unusual Negro Communities
88
XII. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College
94
XIII. Notable Florida Negroes
97
XIV. Durkeeville and Liberty City
107
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XV. Religion
109
XVI. Spirituals
114
Afterword: Reading The Florida Negro by Gertrude Fraser
116
Notes
124
Appendixes
135
Works Cited
167
Index
173
Page vii
Introduction
Many Americans know of the Works Progress Administration from the buildings, art, and public works of the 1930s that still adorn our national landscape. Some have explored the heritage of one of its programs, the Federal Writers' Project, through the general American Guide or through state guides that provided travel and historical compendia for American states of the era, as well as Alaska and Puerto Rico.1 More avid readers may have encountered some of the hundreds of local and topical guides that were also assembled under the aegis of a collection of local units and various kinds of sponsorship. Meanwhile scholars use thematic collections that emerged from the project and perhaps transcended it: These are Our Lives (1939), the searing life narratives of people in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia; Drums and Shadows (1940), an investigation of African and slave lore among blacks on the Georgia coast; Copper Camp (1943), stories from Butte, Montana, or Gumbo Ya-Ya (1945), a collection of Louisiana folklore. Investigators also have returned to these rich portraits and the archives that remain from state projects for specific uses of its assembled materials, as in B. A. Botkin's Lay My Burden Down (1945), Horace R. Cayton and St. Clair Drake's Black Metropolis (1945), Stetson Kennedy's Palmetto Country (1942), Roi Ottley's New World a-Comin': Inside Black America (1943), and Gilbert Osofsky's Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (1965). Thus we continue to recognize that the work of the Federal Writers' Project, from its initial collection activities through the gradual appearance of publications in many states, provided a unique vision of American life in the 1930s and 1940s.
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It is difficult today to realize the scope and the idealism of the undertaking represented by the Federal Writers' Project and its successor, the Writers' Project, during the eight years of their existence from 1935 to 1943. Program participant and historian Jerre Mangione cites a review of the early guides for the
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