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Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, A Slave, V. Florida And Crime At The Command Of The Master, Craig Buettinger 2022 University of Central Florida

Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, A Slave, V. Florida And Crime At The Command Of The Master, Craig Buettinger

Florida Historical Quarterly

The mules had been shot. When the mules, regularly left to forage for themselves amid the Florida scrub, did not wander back to the Hernandez plantation, Adam, the driver charged with their care, went to look for them. He found the animals dead and dying along the road that connected the Hernandez and Dupont plantations, south of St. Augustine. A trail of blood led to Dupont's.


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers; Lecture Series; Websites


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hann, Indians of Central South Florida, 1513-1763, by Alexa Barraclough Crosby; Sinclair, The Land that Never Was: Sir Gregor McGregor and the Most Audacios Fraud in History, by Charles W. Arnade; Barnes, Native American Power in the United States, 1783-1795, by Christina Snyder; Nelson, Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, by James J. Holmberg; Cusick, The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida, by Jeanne T. Heidler; Miller, Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga, by Andrew K. Frank; Perdue, "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early …


The Catholic Church, Martin Luther King Jr., And The March In St. Augustine, Charles R. Gallagher 2022 University of Central Florida

The Catholic Church, Martin Luther King Jr., And The March In St. Augustine, Charles R. Gallagher

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1963 and 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference selected St. Augustine, Florida, as a target city for a new round of civil rights protests. It marked the first major SCLC campaign since the Freedom Rides and Birmingham demonstrations of 1961. In St. Augustine, local chapters of the National Association of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference labored to enlist local Roman Catholics in the cause for civil rights, hoping that a cooperative relationship might help desegregate local businesses, civil service agencies, and restaurants. As demonstrations in St. Augustine developed, however, King's …


The Koreshan Communitarians' Papers And Publications In Edtero, 1894-1963, Irvin D.S. Winsboro 2022 University of Central Florida

The Koreshan Communitarians' Papers And Publications In Edtero, 1894-1963, Irvin D.S. Winsboro

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Koreshan Unity settlement in Estero is one of Florida's most interesting yet largely under-researched chapters of history. Organized by the mystical Cyrus Teed, the Koreshans created at the turn of the twentieth century one of Florida's few self-sustaining communal societies. The original Koreshans are gone now, but their heritage lives on in the form of the Koreshan State Historic Site in Estero, reminding over fifty thousand annual visitors of one of Florida's unique historical episodes. In particular, the Koreshans' leading economic enterprises-their publishing ventures-reflected the crux of the Koreshan experience in Florida. Their extant literature and disparate archived documents …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 83, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Senator Claude D. Pepper: Advocate Of Aid To The Allies, 193901941, Joan E. Denman 2022 University of Central Florida

Senator Claude D. Pepper: Advocate Of Aid To The Allies, 193901941, Joan E. Denman

Florida Historical Quarterly

As a junior United States Senator from Florida during 1939-1941, Claude Denson Pepper was one of the most vocal advocates of conscription and aid to France and Britain. Having seen Adolph Hitler's influence and popularity firsthand in 1938, he realized the threat that Nazi Germany presented to the European continent, Great Britain, and possibly the United States. Throughout 1939 and 1940, he spoke of the need for preparedness and became increasingly outspoken as the conflict in Europe intensified. With the help of presidential advisor Benjamin V. Cohen, he drafted two Senate bills for aid to the Allies in May 1940. …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Weitzel, Journeys with Florida' Indians, by Michelle Ruth Davis; Hudson, Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa, by Greg O'Brien; Delfino and Gillespie, eds., Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, by Merline Pitre; Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African Americaan Slaves, by Andrew McMichael; Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861, by Patrick O'Neil; Schwartz, Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895, by Keith Huneycutt; Krick, Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers; Conferences; Websites; Important Notice


Steamboats, Cypress, & Tourism: An Ecological History Of The Ocklawaha In The Late Nineteenth Century, Seven Noll 2022 University of Central Florida

Steamboats, Cypress, & Tourism: An Ecological History Of The Ocklawaha In The Late Nineteenth Century, Seven Noll

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1882, George Barbour thusly described Florida's Ocklawaha River in his guidebook to the state. This river, whose name is variously spelled in the promotional literature, tourist pamphlets, and magazine articles of the late nineteenth century, enticed northern visitors and entrepreneurs alike in the years following the Civil War. Its exotic subtropical landscape, heavily forested and swampy banks, bizarre and atavistic wildlife, and otherworldly springs made it seem like something out of Africa rather than the United States. That a trip up the river by steamboat led to the remarkable fishbowl of Silver Springs only added to its appeal. From …


Get The Facts - And Then Act": How Marjorie H. Carr And Florida Defenders Of The Enviornment Fought To Save The Ocklawaha River, Frederick R. Davis 2022 University of Central Florida

Get The Facts - And Then Act": How Marjorie H. Carr And Florida Defenders Of The Enviornment Fought To Save The Ocklawaha River, Frederick R. Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Self described as a "Micanopy housewife," Marjorie Harris Carr seemed an unlikely candidate to develop and lead a successful grassroots campaign to save the Ocklawaha River and the wilderness surrounding it against the Army Corps of Engineers' federally mandated Cross-Florida Barge Canal. In spearheading the "Fight to Save the Ocklawaha," Carr revealed an innate sense of how to present environmental science to the public, the media, and legislators in a way that swayed opinion.


Economic Boom Or Political Boondoggle? Florida's Atlantic Gulf Ship Canal In The 1930s, Michael David Tegeder 2022 University of Central Florida

Economic Boom Or Political Boondoggle? Florida's Atlantic Gulf Ship Canal In The 1930s, Michael David Tegeder

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the 1930s, the federal government began construction on one of the grandest public works projects in Florida. More than twice the length of the Suez and four times larger than the Panama Canal, the Atlantic Gulf Ship Canal was "perhaps the most opulent single symbol of the New Deal."1 Yet, despite the labor and massive expenditures on the part of state and federal officials, the project ended within a year of its groundbreaking. Plagued by political controversy from start to finish, the Ship Canal can be seen as a dress-rehearsal for the decades-long debate over the Cross-Florida Barge Canal …


Introduction, Sherry Johnson 2022 University of Central Florida

Introduction, Sherry Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Originally presented at the Third Biennial Allen Morris Conference in February 2004, the articles in this special issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly examine the history of three related riverine environments in north central Florida--the St. Johns River, the Ocklawaha River, and the Withlacoochee River basinss-from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1990s.1 The conference panel was designed to demonstrate how exploiting the rivers furthered modern ideas, promoted progress, and created economic prosperity. All three studies also sought to show how modernization had the potential to wreak havoc on a unique, fragile, and irreplaceable ecosystem. Collectively, these essays examine how the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 83, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Reading The Traumatic Moment: The Role Of Socioeconomic Systems In The Color Purple And The Bluest Eye, Andrea Doll 2022 Bellarmine University

Reading The Traumatic Moment: The Role Of Socioeconomic Systems In The Color Purple And The Bluest Eye, Andrea Doll

Undergraduate Theses

There are many points of sameness between Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Both novels occur in the mid-20th century and focus on protagonists within the same race, gender, and relative class. Of all the similarities between the texts, the most influential is the trauma, sexual and otherwise, shared between Pecola Breedlove and Celie. Most notably, both characters experience incestuous rape resulting in pregnancy shortly after their first menstruation. Despite their numerous shared events and attributes, what occurs after their sexual trauma differs drastically for each character. At the end of The Color Purple …


Volume Index, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Volume Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Index to Volume 82


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences; Websites; Awards and Honors; Editor's Note


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

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, …


The Integration Of Stetson University, Jason Blake 2022 University of Central Florida

The Integration Of Stetson University, Jason Blake

Florida Historical Quarterly

Henry A. DeLand and John B. Stetson founded a school in 1883, and even at that early date, both men considered the possibility of a biracial institution. They opted against it for various reasons, not the least of which was the school's geographical location. Upon establishing DeLand Academy strictly as an all-white institution, however, DeLand and Stetson institutionalized their vision by deciding against any rules in the charter that would specifically forbid integration.1 Nearly seventy years later, Stetson University struggled with the issue that its founders had left unresolved. Consequently, by the early 1960s, Stetson became the first private university …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 82, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


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