Plantation Self-Sufficiency In Leon County, Florida: 1824-1860,
2021
University of Central Florida
Plantation Self-Sufficiency In Leon County, Florida: 1824-1860, Margaret T. Ordonez
Florida Historical Quarterly
Economic independence from the North was a desired goal of antebellum southern leaders of the nineteenth century. Southern Commercial Convention participants strongly supported such independence at their meetings held irregularly between 1837 and 1860. They proposed that Southerners should trade directly with Europe for manufactured goods in exchange for cotton and other products produced in the South. In Leon County, Florida, newly-settled planters had arranged for direct trade with Liverpool by 1831. Plantation supplies such as Negro clothes and blankets, bagging, iron, and salt from Liverpool sold at lower prices than similar goods from New York in 1835. Although the …
South Florida In 1860,
2021
University of Central Florida
South Florida In 1860, Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the eve of the Civil War, the southern half of the Florida peninsula remained the last great coastal frontier region east of the Mississippi River. Although the 700-mile coastline from Tampa Bay to the northern Indian River, embracing the Florida Keys, had been charted since the eighteenth century, much of this land was still unsettled. Despite the recent activity brought about by the Second and Third Seminole Indian wars, the vast interior was, for the most part, unexplored. Although growth was slow, settlement and economic activity were steadily increasing. Despite its unsettled condition, south Florida’s proximity to the rest …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 60, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Engineers Vs Florida's Green Menace,
2021
University of Central Florida
Engineers Vs Florida's Green Menace, George E. Buker
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the late 1880s or early 1890s (sources are vague as to the exact time), people living along the St. Johns River were enthralled by the addition of a beautiful floating water plant to the river’s scenery. Above a luxuriant green base towered a spike of purple flowers. Steamboat operators were pleased when the tourists admired the drifting bouquets gliding by their vessels. Cattlemen along the river were enthused at the prospect of a new cheap fodder for their stock. They gathered bundles of the floating greenery to carry upriver for propagation in their ponds and streams. Mr. Fuller, owner …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLORIDA’S GUBERNATORIAL POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by David R. Colburn and Richard K. Scher, reviewed by William C. Havard; THE U.S. NAVY IN PENSACOLA, FROM SAILING SHIPS TO NAVAL AVIATION (1825-1930), by George F. Pearce, reviewed by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; A HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, by Edward P. Keuchel, reviewed by Jerrell H. Shofner; CONFERENCE ON FLORIDA’S MARITIME HERITAGE, CURTIS-HIXON CONVENTION CENTER, TAMPA, FLORIDA, MARCH 22-23, 1980, edited by Barbara A. Purdy, reviewed by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.; THE STRUGGLE FOR THE GULF BORDERLANDS: THE CREEK WAR AND THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, 1812-1815, by Frank Lawrence …
Tampa And The New Urban South: The Weight Strike Of 1899,
2021
University of Central Florida
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.
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses completed in 1980 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.
Wherever The Fight Is Thickest: General James Patton Anderson Of Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Wherever The Fight Is Thickest: General James Patton Anderson Of Florida, Larry Rayburn
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the night of October 8, 1861, in the harbor of Pensacola Bay, long columns of gray clad soldiers marched slowly aboard steamers moored by the dock. Officers whispered orders, and the enlisted men spoke in hushed tones. Aside from their voices, only the rattle of canteens and the lapping of water against the steamers broke the silence of the autumn darkness.
The Southern Indians In The War Of 1812: The Closing Phase,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Southern Indians In The War Of 1812: The Closing Phase, John Sugden
Florida Historical Quarterly
It has been conventional to equate the conflict between the southern Indians and the United States during the War of 1812 with the Creek war of 1813-1814. More correctly, however, there were three stages of the fighting, each emanating from standing grievances against the Americans nursed by Creek and Seminole bands, but receiving their initial impetus from separate sources. In 1812 and 1813, the Seminoles and their Negro allies, rallied by the Spanish who were concerned to protect their possessions in the south from American filibusters, participated in a number of skirmishes. A second phase of Indian hostility to the …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 60, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Annual Meeting,
2021
University of Central Florida
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proccedings of the Seventy-ninth Meeting of the Florida Historical Socieity, and Florida Historical Confederation Workshop, 1981
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
ABORIGINAL SUBSISTENCE TECHNOLOGY ON THE SOUTHEASTERNCOASTAL PLAIN DURING THE LATE PREHISTORIC PERIOD, by Lewis H. Larson, reviewed by Elizabeth J. Reitz; THIS SO REMOTE FRONTIER: THE CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTRY OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA, by Mark E. Fretwell, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, by William N. Morgan, reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich; THE SPANISH CROWN AND THE DEFENSE OF THE CARIBBEAN, 1535-1585: PRECEDENT, PATRIMONIALISM, AND ROYAL PARSIMONY, by Paul E. Hoffman, reviewed by Stanley M. Hordes; FIREARMS IN COLONIAL AMERICA: THE IMPACT ON HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY, 1495-1792, by M. L. Brown, reviewed by Albert …
Florida History In Periodicals,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1980. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1980 issue of the Quarterly.
Florida And The Royal Navy's Floridas,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida And The Royal Navy's Floridas, Robert R. Rea
Florida Historical Quarterly
The naming of ships, like the naming of babies, may depend upon the most whimsical of circumstances, yet in both instances some significance is apt to lie behind the name. Just as the adoption of a long-hallowed family name displays a pride of ancestry, the attachment of a place-name to a ship reflects a certain territorial pride. So it was with the great battleships of the United States Navy that bore such names as Florida and Alabama — the latter now enshrined in Mobile Bay. It is a matter of considerable historical curiosity, however, to find the name of Florida …
Postscript To The Martin Tabert Case: Peonage As Usual In The Florida Turpentine Camps,
2021
University of Central Florida
Postscript To The Martin Tabert Case: Peonage As Usual In The Florida Turpentine Camps, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1923 NAACP Secretary James Weldon Johnson wrote the editor of the New York World thanking him for the paper’s exposure of brutality in the Florida turpentine camps which had caused the state legislature to abolish the leasing of county convicts to private companies. Himself a product of the progressive era and a believer in man’s ability to reform his society through positive legislation, Johnson wrote that “ending this evil” was “a long step toward the ending of peonage.” The state had already been prohibited in 1919 from leasing its prisoners to private firms, but counties had continued the practice …
Billy Graham In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Billy Graham In Florida, Lois Ferm
Florida Historical Quarterly
Billy Graham who suffered periodic attacks of influenza when he was a young boy, first came to Florida because the doctors hoped that a warm climate would restore his health. However, in terms of his career in evangelism, his decision to move South seems almost providential, for as a student at the Florida Bible Institute in Tampa in the 1930s, he was exposed to a veritable “Who’s Who” of evangelical giants. As a high school student, Billy had accepted the claims of Jesus Christ on his life and had surrendered his life to Christ in a revival service held in …
Florida Seminoles And The Census Of 1900,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Seminoles And The Census Of 1900, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most persistent problems confronting historians dealing with the Seminole Indians in Florida during the late-nineteenth century has been a paucity of reliable population data. In the first four decades of the modern tribal era, the years following cessation of the Third Seminole War in 1858, there was only one attempt at a comprehensive account of Florida Seminoles. That was a survey conducted in the winter of 1880-1881 by Clay MacCauley for the Smithsonian Institution, which yielded what has become the generally accepted base line population figures. He found 208 Seminoles residing in the state, the unhappy remnant …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 60, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
