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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

O'Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. by Timothy J. Williams; Hobson, McAdams, and Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal. by Eric Gary Anderson; Wright and Glass, eds., Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt. by J. Vincent Lowery; Wells and Phipps, eds., Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. by Kathleen C. Berkeley; Hagood, Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. by Patricia B. Angley


Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion Of Spanish East Florida And Atlantic History, Robert J. Alderson, Jr. Apr 2022

Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion Of Spanish East Florida And Atlantic History, Robert J. Alderson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1793-1794 a motley group of South Carolina and Georgia backcountrymen entered into a conspiracy with French revolutionaries to invade Spanish territories in Louisiana and Florida. Although the plot eventually collapsed under pressure from the French and American governments, support for the expedition and resistance to the planned invasion provide a revealing chapter in the history of the southern backcountry and the Atlantic world. The confluence of multi-national, multi-racial constituencies in the heat of revolutionary fervor is ripe for re-evaluation. The most recent examination of the plot was conducted by Michael Morris, who placed the planned invasion of East Florida …


Baseball In Key West And Havana, 1885-1910, Gerald E. Poyo Apr 2022

Baseball In Key West And Havana, 1885-1910, Gerald E. Poyo

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the midst of the political agitation and heightened nationalist fervor provoked by Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, aged Francisco Andres Poyo, known by his family and friends as Pancho, in early 1961 lay ailing in his Havana home in the Almendares neighborhood. Of his seven children only his daughter Maria, and a trusted housekeeper, remained to attend his needs as he approached his ninetieth year. His wife, Louisa died in 1954 and all his children except Maria had either died or left Cuba. Maria tried to convince her father to leave so not to be alone, but …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lipscomb, ed. The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic. by Rusty Bouseman; Buker. The Metal Life Car: The Inventor, the Impostor, and the Business of Lifesaving. by John Missall; Winsboro. Florida's Civil War: Explorations into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory. by Daniel R. Lewis; Snay. Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction. by David T. Gleeson; Crawford, Jr. Florida Big Dig: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami, 1881-1935. by Steven Noll; Warren. If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK and States' Rights …


The Florida Room: Religion & Romance: A Florida Memoir, Ron Mcfarland Apr 2022

The Florida Room: Religion & Romance: A Florida Memoir, Ron Mcfarland

Florida Historical Quarterly

When I was thirteen years old my parents suddenly became Methodists. All of my life we had been God-fearing Presbyterians, and my father sang in the choir and my mother taught Sunday School. I went to vacation Bible school at the First Presbyterian Church in Rockledge, Florida, and my first girlfriend, Sherry, she of the blue-green eyes and honey-blonde hair, was a Presbyterian. Before that, when we moved to Winter Park in 1950, we attended Park Lake Presbyterian, and before that, in Barnesville, Ohio, we worshipped at the massive reddish-sandstone block First Presbyterian Church where I was baptized. Or was …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Greene et al. eds., Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of South Carolina's Plantation Society, by Randall Miller; Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789, Volume XII: Georgia and Florida Treaties, 1763-1776, by Greg O'Brien; Gordon, South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, by Greg Massey; O'Brien, Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830, by Joel Martin; Engs and Miller, eds., The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation, by Stephen D. Engle; Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, by Chris Meyers; Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, …


Unended Middle Passage: The Exhausted Flesh Of A Resistant Enslaved Woman, Yipu Su Apr 2022

Unended Middle Passage: The Exhausted Flesh Of A Resistant Enslaved Woman, Yipu Su

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

The supine position that characterized the existence of the captive Africans on the slave ship, “The Brookes,” haunted the two female autobiographers of the two mid-nineteenth-century slave narratives/autobiographies this essay discusses. Both Sojourner Truth and Harriet Jacobs voluntarily adopted the supine position as their status of living when resisting sexual violence in slavery, which nevertheless exhausted their flesh. This essay draws on Hortense Spillers’ theory of flesh/body antithesis and Saidiya V. Hartman’s theory of gender construction in slavery to discuss the nature of intended exhaustion. This essay examines to what extent was the strategy of intended exhaustion efficient for both …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE INDIANS’ NEW SOUTH: CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE COLONIAL SOUTHEAST, by James Axtell, reviewed by Theda Perdue; “A ROGUE’S PARADISE”: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN ANTEBELLUM FLORIDA, 1821-1861, by James M. Denham, reviewed by Maxwell Bloomfield; BUILDING MARVELOUS MIAMI, by Nicholas N. Patricios, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; JOHN ELLIS: MERCHANT, MICROSCOPIST, NATURALIST, AND KING’S AGENT— A BIOLOGIST OF HIS TIMES, by Julius Groner and Paul F. S. Cornelius, reviewed by Roy A. Rauschenberg; “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: LIFE, LABOR, AND LANDSCAPE ON THE GEORGIA COAST, 1680-1920, by Mart A. Stewart, reviewed by Jeffrey R. Young; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO …


Lonely Vigils: Houses Of Refuge On Florida's East Coast, 1876-1915, Sandra Henderson Thurlow Mar 2022

Lonely Vigils: Houses Of Refuge On Florida's East Coast, 1876-1915, Sandra Henderson Thurlow

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between 1875 and 1886, ten houses of refuge and a life-saving station were built at intervals along Florida’s east coast below St. Augustine. Their primary purpose was to aid shipwreck victims, but they provided strongholds in the wilderness as well. The stations, as they were called by the early settlers, joined four lighthouses to establish a governmental presence and a framework to which pioneer development clung.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

CATHOLIC PARISH LIFE ON FLORIDA’S WEST COAST, 1860-1968, by Michael J. McNally, reviewed by Michael Gannon; CESAR CHAVEZ: A TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT, by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, reviewed by Cindy Hahamovitch; AN ASSUMPTION OF SOVEREIGNTY: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION AMONG THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES 1953-1979, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by John K. Mahon; CHOCTAW GENESIS, 1500-1700, by Patricia Galloway, reviewed by F. Michael Williams; THE TRANSFORMING HAND OF REVOLUTION: RECONSIDERING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT, edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, reviewed by Edmund F. Kallina, Jr.; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO …


"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier, Anya Jabour Mar 2022

"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier, Anya Jabour

Florida Historical Quarterly

In October 1826, Laura Wirt wrote to her cousin, Louisa Cabell Carrington, regarding her forthcoming marriage and move from her parents’ comfortable home in the Upper South to a lonely plantation in the newly-opened Florida territory. “I cannot endure the thought! The very prospect breaks my heart!” she exclaimed. 1 But, like many southern women, Laura found that her own preferences had little weight when set against her male relatives’ eagerness to achieve the fabled wealth of the Florida frontier. Laura’s father, U.S. Attorney General William Wirt, and her uncles, Robert and John Gamble of Richmond, Virginia, had invested in …


The Florida Diaries Of Daniel H. Wiggins, 1836-1841, David J. Coles Mar 2022

The Florida Diaries Of Daniel H. Wiggins, 1836-1841, David J. Coles

Florida Historical Quarterly

Since Frederick Jackson Turner delivered his seminal 1893 essay on the significance of the frontier in American history, scholars have delved into virtually every aspect of the western frontier experience. Unfortunately, historians have neglected many issues surrounding southern frontier life in the early nineteenth century. Studies of the Florida frontier during this period are particularly few in number.1 Recently, the work of several historians has heightened our appreciation of the importance of the frontier as part of Florida’s heritage. Other than several county and local histories, however, little new work has been written on the original north Florida panhandle frontier …


Harmon Murray: Black Desperado In Late Nineteenth-Century Florida, Billy Jaynes Chandler Mar 2022

Harmon Murray: Black Desperado In Late Nineteenth-Century Florida, Billy Jaynes Chandler

Florida Historical Quarterly

North Florida was far from the Wild West, but for a time in the late nineteenth century it ceded little in the notoriety of its outlaws to that famous region. If Harmon Murray, leader of the “north Florida gang,” has not taken his place in history alongside Billy the Kid or Jesse James, it was hardly his fault. Though he was soon forgotten, at the time of his death in late summer 1891 Murray’s name was known throughout the state and beyond. The reasons for Murray’s quick rise to fame had much to do with his skill, courage, and sheer …


William Bartram's Travels In The Indian Nations, Charlotte M. Porter Mar 2022

William Bartram's Travels In The Indian Nations, Charlotte M. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1773, the famous American naturalist William Bartram returned to the southeast portion of what is now the United States. The region was a more dangerous place than he realized. American “patriots” from Georgia were making troublesome border raids into East Florida. Many of the English plantations were owned in absentia, and the lives of the resident managers were, as Bartram knew from personal experience, isolated. Indian groups far outnumbered white residents in the Floridas, and they were becoming increasingly hostile. With an estimated 4,500 warriors, the Lower Creeks seriously impeded any colonial presence in the East Florida interior. In …


Across The Border: Commodity Flow And Merchants In Spanish St. Augustine, James Cusick Mar 2022

Across The Border: Commodity Flow And Merchants In Spanish St. Augustine, James Cusick

Florida Historical Quarterly

Spanish Governor Zéspedes, writing in 1788 to a superior about his impressions of East Florida, decried the colony’s reliance on Havana as its sole source of supply. The majority of the colonists were far too impoverished, he wrote, to afford the high prices of goods shipped via Cuba. He continued: “[T]hat a poor immigrant at the end of one year, when he has made his first crop, or a Minorcan with a wife and four or five children who does not earn half a peso fuerte a day, should have to provide his family with goods bought from that place …


Apalachicola Aweigh: Shipping And Seamen At Florida's Premier Cotton Port, Lynn Willoughby Mar 2022

Apalachicola Aweigh: Shipping And Seamen At Florida's Premier Cotton Port, Lynn Willoughby

Florida Historical Quarterly

Apalachicola in the 1840s was Florida’s busiest port. It also was a town that cotton built. To its north lay the Apalachicola, Chipola, Flint, and Chattahoochee rivers which together comprised the longest riverine system east of the Mississippi. Along those waterways lay thousands of cotton fields, and from as far away as Columbus, Georgia, planters dispatched their crops in steamers and pole boats to the Gulf of Mexico by way of Apalachicola.


William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr. Mar 2022

William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Alexander Blount, as a child, had experienced the frustrations of poverty and disorder resulting from the Civil War. While steeped in many of the values and traditions of the Old South, Blount was one of the new generation of southern leaders who, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877, strove to modernize the South through industrialization and closer cooperation with northern capitalists. His keen intellect and sharp legal mind served him well as a corporate lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Florida. Blount’s legal career in Pensacola spanned the Bourbon period, roughly from 1877 to 1900, when …


Demography And The Political Destiny Of Florida During The Second Spanish Period, Abel Poitrineau Jan 2022

Demography And The Political Destiny Of Florida During The Second Spanish Period, Abel Poitrineau

Florida Historical Quarterly

The twenty-year period of British sovereignty of the Floridas came to an end September 3, 1783, when the treaty concluding the American Revolution was signed at Versailles, France. The Treaty of Paris, as it was known, gave the Spanish crown control of a large portion of North America. Spain retained sovereignty over the Louisiana Territory, and the Spanish flag once more flew over the Floridas as it had from 1565 to 1763. However, the restoration of Spanish rule in the Floridas, so important for the control of the Bahama Channel, was at best precarious. Spain’s military weakness and the financial …


John Ellis, King's Agent, And West Florida, Julius Groner Jan 2022

John Ellis, King's Agent, And West Florida, Julius Groner

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the short though not uneventful life of the British colony of West Florida, major figures came and went with disruptive frequency. Three royal governors and two lieutenant governors headed the resident administration of the colony in eighteen years, but all of them enjoyed the administrative stability provided in London by the royal agent for West Florida, John Ellis. For a dozen years this distinguished scientist and modest bureaucrat presided over the parliamentary grant upon which West Florida depended and disbursed its funds in such a judicious manner as to restrain gubernatorial fiscal exuberance, maintain necessary public functions, and satisfy …


A Biomythography Of Mommy, Immanuel J. Williams Jan 2022

A Biomythography Of Mommy, Immanuel J. Williams

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


"Florida Is A Blessed Country": Letters To Iowa From A Florida Settler, Pat Sonquist Lane Dec 2021

"Florida Is A Blessed Country": Letters To Iowa From A Florida Settler, Pat Sonquist Lane

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters from settlers have provided information and insights into the early history of our country. The letters here are about Gainesville and Charlotte Harbor, Florida, between 1885 and 1887, and were written by J. Albert Erickson, who had moved from north central Iowa to Florida in 1874. Erickson’s letters were sent to John A. Lindberg, editor of the Dayton (Iowa) Review, who published them.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

TAMPA: THE TREASURE CITY, by Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo, reviewed by Janet Snyder Matthews; MIZNER’S FLORIDA, AMERICAN RESORT ARCHITECTURE, by Donald W. Curl, reviewed by Ivan A. Rodriguez; STETSON UNIVERSITY: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, by Gilbert L. Lycan, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; THEIR NUMBER BECOME THINNED, by Henry F. Dobyns, reviewed by Kathleen A. Deagan; CATHOLICS IN THE OLD SOUTH, edited by Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; JOHN BELL HOOD AND THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE, by Richard M. McMurry, reviewed by K. Jack Bauer; THE SOUTH RETURNS TO …


Plantation Development In British East Florida: A Case Study Of The Earl Of Egmont, Daniel L. Schafer Dec 2021

Plantation Development In British East Florida: A Case Study Of The Earl Of Egmont, Daniel L. Schafer

Florida Historical Quarterly

Over dinners at their country estates and at the stylish Shakespeare Head tavern in London, British aristocrats talked excitedly in 1763 about the prospects of acquiring huge tracts of land in East Florida, a recent prize of the Seven Years War. “We are all East Florida mad,” one potential investor said, describing a “land fever” that prompted his kinsman to abandon prudent caution so as “not to miss a vast future prospect.“ Another aristocrat described the activities of his friends as “a little confused, . . . but you can make allowance for gentlemen settling a Colony over a Bottle …


Francis's Metallic Lifeboats And The Third Seminole War, George E. Buker Dec 2021

Francis's Metallic Lifeboats And The Third Seminole War, George E. Buker

Florida Historical Quarterly

Because Joseph Francis was a good, persistent salesman and General Thomas S. Jesup was knowledgeable about Florida and its Seminole Indians, the United States Army became interested in metallic lifeboats. By December 20, 1855, when Chief Billy Bowlegs’s warriors attacked Lieutenant George Hartsuff’s men in the Big Cypress Swamp, some of Francis’s metallic lifeboats already were in Florida waters. Thus, during the Third Seminole War, the army, for the first time, used metal boats in combat operations.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

BECALMED IN THE MULLET LATITUDES, AL BURT’S FLORIDA, by Al Burt, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; FROM SCRATCH PADS AND DREAMS: A TEN YEAR HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, by Daniel L. Schafer, reviewed by James P. Jones; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 7, SECRETARY OF STATE, JANUARY 1, 1828-MARCH 4, 1829, edited by Robert Seager II, reviewed by Edwin A. Miles; LIBERTY AND SLAVERY: SOUTHERN POLITICS TO 1860, by William J. Cooper, Jr., reviewed by F. N. Boney; THE RULING RACE, A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SLAVEHOLDERS, by James Oakes, reviewed by Julia Floyd Smith; BLACK SOUTHERNERS, …


Following Bartram's "Track": Titian Ramsay Peale's Florida Journey, Charlotte M. Porter Dec 2021

Following Bartram's "Track": Titian Ramsay Peale's Florida Journey, Charlotte M. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

On Christmas Day 1817, Titian Ramsay Peale, the seventeen-year-old son of Charles Willson Peale, noted painter and founder of the nation’s first museum, left Philadelphia with zoologist George Ord and sailed to Savannah, Georgia. There they joined the wealthy geologist, William Maclure, and Thomas Say, whose pioneering work on American insects the self-styled “Dr. T. R. Peale” had begun to illustrate for publication. All four men, including young Titian, were officers of the newly incorporated Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. As Academy president, Maclure generously supported members’ fieldwork, although the exact scientific expectations for this collecting trip into Florida …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

JOSÉ DE EZPELETA, GOBERNADOR DE LA MOBILA, 1780-1781, by Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas, reviewed by Robin F. A. Fabel; SUN, SAND AND WATER: A HISTORY OF THE JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT U. S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1821-1975, by George E. Buker, reviewed by Nelson M. Blake; THE WESTWARD ENTERPRISE: ENGLISH ACTIVITIES IN IRELAND, THE ATLANTIC AND AMERICA, 1480-1650, edited by K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny, and P. E. H. Hair, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 5, AUGUST 16-DECEMBER 31, 1776, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerard W. Gawalt, Rosemark Fry Plakas, and Eugene …


Tampa And The New Urban South: The Weight Strike Of 1899, Gary R. Mormino Dec 2021

Tampa And The New Urban South: The Weight Strike Of 1899, Gary R. Mormino

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The decade of the nineties is the watershed of American history," wrote Henry Steele Commager in The American Mind. The case of Tampa, Florida, in this period reinforces Commager’s suggestive thesis that the ten years before the beginning of the twentieth century ushered in modern values accompanied by a profound population change, economic transformation, and urban problems. War, immigration, urbanization, racial turmoil, labor strife, and industrialization— crises of the nineties— helped forge the transformation of Tampa during this era which resulted in the 1899 “Huelga de la Pesa,” (the Weight Strike) and its aftermath.


Loyalist Refugees And The British Evacuation Of East Florida, 1783-1785, Carole Watterson Troxler Dec 2021

Loyalist Refugees And The British Evacuation Of East Florida, 1783-1785, Carole Watterson Troxler

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the beginning of the American Revolution, the security afforded by the St. Augustine garrison attracted loyalists from nearby Georgia and the Carolinas to the British colony of East Florida. The stream of refugees fluctuated with the course of the war. It swelled in 1778, reflecting the confiscation and banishment acts, but reversed itself the following year in the wake of the British invasion of the southern colonies. The autumn of 1782 brought a flood of men who had gained the enmity of their neighbors by service in loyalist militia or provincial corps. They accompanied the British withdrawal, first from …


Abner Doubleday And The Third Seminole War, David Ramsey Dec 2021

Abner Doubleday And The Third Seminole War, David Ramsey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Abner Doubleday, the grandson of a veteran of the American Revolution, was born June 26, 1819, at Ballston Spa, New York, twenty miles north of Albany. Abner attended school in Auburn and later Cooperstown, New York, before entering the United States Military Academy in 1838. Graduating in 1842, he stood number twenty-four academically in a class of fifty-six.