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Author Marotti, Frank, 1954-

Title Heaven's soldiers [electronic resource] : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / Frank Marotti.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 233 p. : ill., ports.
Series Atlantic crossings
Atlantic crossings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Looking backward and forward -- The 1820s : anxious optimism -- The 1830s : manumission, property, and family -- The Second Seminole War -- Restricted manumission, migrations, and antimiscegenation -- Preserving Spanish days : marriage and manumission -- The black martial heritage -- Land, paternalism, and laws.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Free African Americans -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
Saint Johns County (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century.
Florida -- History -- 1821-1865.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780817317843 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
9780817386535 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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