The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Freedom for negroes in a society where race was the only qualification for slavery was at best an anomaly and at worst an illusion. In either case though, freedom survived alongside slavery. Florida first acquired free Negroes early in the seventeenth century. In 1704 the Spanish governor, Zuniga, opened the territory to fugitive slaves from British plantations to the North. Thus established, potential liberty across the border tempted Carolina blacks and tormented their white owners. It was hoped that the colonization of Georgia would serve as a buffer region to prevent the escape of slaves to Florida. Carolina benefited, but …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xlvi,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contents Of Volume Xlvi, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 46
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of contributors to this issue
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Holmes, Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799, by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Posey, Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier, by Lefferts A. Loetscher; Van Every, Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian, by Frank Laumer; Dew, Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works, by Clement Eaton; Somers, The Southern States Since the War: 1870-1871, by Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.; Weltner, Southerner, by Mary Elizabeth Massey; Smith et al., Diamond Anniversary Faculty Essays, by Doak S. Campbell; Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities, by Gilbert L. …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Bigelow, Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Frank G. Slaughter; Rush, The Battle of Pensacola, March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain’s Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico, by Jane de Grummond; Martin, Eternal Spring: Man’s 10,000 Years of History at Florida's Silver Springs, by Donald W. Curl; Massola, The Wonderful Life of Angelo Massari; An Autobiography, by O. Z. Tyler; Gibson, Spain in America, by Donald Worcester; McDermott, The French in the Mississippi Valley, by Robert L. Gold; De Vorsey, The Indian Boundary in the Southern Colonies, 1763- 1775, …
Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882,
2021
University of Central Florida
Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882, Edward C. Williamson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1868 and again in 1872, Florida’s Republican Party triumphed over a predominantly ex-Confederate Democratic opposition. The Republican majorities were greatly enhanced by the political organization of the Black Belt. Chief among the political organizers was carpetbagger Dennis Eagan, a native of Ireland, whose particular bailiwick was Madison County and whose political organization survived the debacle of 1876 and the demise of Reconstruction. As late as 1880, Eagan was still delivering sizeable majorities to Republican candidates when in most of the rest of Florida the party was becoming dormant. That majority, for the most part Negroes, was in effect keeping …
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii),
2021
University of Central Florida
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii), Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
Elias Rector as an ardent partisan of the Confederacy, must have particularly wished in subsequent years that his report of Billy Bowleg’s death had been more than just a rumor, for Bowlegs was one of the principal chiefs of the Five Civilized Tribes who supported the Union in the Civil War. Although a number of Seminole chiefs, along with representatives of all the other Civilized Tribes, were bullied or cajoled into signing a treaty with the Confederacy, before the war was over it was estimated that two-thirds of the Seminole Indians and practically all their Negroes were within the Union …
Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge,
2021
University of Central Florida
Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge, Edwin C. Bearss
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the last year of the Civil War, the Union forces took advantage of their seapower to carry the conflict to sections of Florida that had heretofore escaped the ravages of war. Operating from bases which they had seized along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the state, Union columns would strike deep into the interior and fall back before the Confederates could rally a force strong enough to intervene. Raiding parties were likewise put ashore from transports. If they ran into serious opposition, the raiders would fall back to the beach, where they would be covered by the great …
Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida, Ralph L. Peek
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Dunnington Bloxham was the first Democrat to win a high elective office in Florida following Congressional Reconstruction. Just twenty-eight months after the end of military rule in the state this native Florida conservative was elected lieutenant governor. However, he was denied the fruits of victory for more than eighteen months. After tedious litigation he was finally awarded the office by the Florida Supreme Court and was inaugurated June 3, 1872.
Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774,
2021
University of Central Florida
Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774, Mary S. Mattfield
Florida Historical Quarterly
The eastern coast of the State of Florida is today heavily populated. From Jupiter Inlet north to the Georgia state line, vacation resorts and permanent communities front the Atlantic all the way. It is not easy to visualize this shore as wilderness through which a traveler could make his way only with the greatest difficulty, a cruel wilderness of burning desert and freezing exposure, of lacerating thorns and shells, and of near starvation. It is still harder to imagine the traveler on this coast beset, not only by natural perils, but also by the menace of hostile, even cannibalistic Indian …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 45, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of contributors to this issue
Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966,
2021
University of Central Florida
Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the Directors meeting
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Robinson, The First Coming to America of the Book of Common Prayer, Florida, July 1565, by Michael V. Gannon; deCoste, True Tales of Old St. Augustine, by Theodore Pratt; Manucy, Florida’s Menendez: Captain General of the Ocean Sea, by M. Adele Francis Gorman; Scarborough, The Overseer Plantation Management in the Old South, by William Warren Rogers; Dos Passos, The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades, by Franklin A. Doty; Tebbel, The Compact History of the Indian Wars, by John K. Mahon; Capers, Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals, 1862-1865, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Tompkins (ed.), D-Days at …
A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Fort Caroline National Memorial, a facility of the National park Service near Jacksonville, includes the reconstructed sixteenth century fort and an interpretive museum, the latter containing priceless American and European artifacts. Fort Caroline, established by the French in 1564 under the leadership of Rene Laudonniere, was then the only European settlement in the territory which is now the United States. It was conquered in 1565 by Spanish forces under Pedro Menendez d’Aviles, who founded Saint Augustine, the country’s oldest city.
Suwannee River Steamboating,
2021
University of Central Florida
Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller
Florida Historical Quarterly
Stephen Collins Foster's famous song, “Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” has probably done more than anything else to elevate this relatively minor Florida river to a position of fame that it otherwise would not have achieved. Now the official state song of Florida, it was written in 1851 while Foster was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had originally decided to title it, “Way Down Upon The Pee Dee River,” but fortunately he changed his mind, and, as the story goes, examined a map and discovered the name of the little-known Florida river. Foster had certainly not seen the Suwannee when …
Florida's Golden Age Of Racing,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland
Florida Historical Quarterly
The honor of being “the first man to sit behind the controls of a self-propelled road vehicle,” goes to a French army engineer, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who in the 1760s designed a monstrous steam carriage to transport artillery. Cugnot’s vehicle was so massive and unwieldy that it knocked over the wall of a courtyard while being tested, and on another occasion turned over on the streets of Paris. Its top speed was from two to six miles per hour.
