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History News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities


Sources For The History Of The Spanish Borderlands, William S. Coker Jul 2021

Sources For The History Of The Spanish Borderlands, William S. Coker

Florida Historical Quarterly

The recent flurry of scholarly endeavors on Spanish Louisiana and the Spanish Floridas has revealed some new sources for the study of those areas. In addition to a number of new books and articles and some valuable reprints, several recent meetings have been devoted in whole or in part to resources and research opportunities for the Spanish era. The interest stimulated by this burst of activity led to the compilation of this note which reviews new sources available, indicates well-known collections and archival holdings that have been microfilmed and can now be purchased or borrowed on interlibrary loan, and mentions …


Hamilton Disston's St. Cloud Sugar Plantation, 1887-1901, Pat Dodson Jul 2021

Hamilton Disston's St. Cloud Sugar Plantation, 1887-1901, Pat Dodson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida history remembers Henry Bradley Plant and Henry Morrison Flagler because of the railroads and hotels that these two nineteenth century magnates built and because of the major impact that they had on state politics and on Florida’s economic growth. But Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia preceded them, and in fact, helped make their ventures possible. Disston’s own accomplishments may have had a greater influence than either Plant or Flagler in leading Florida into the twentieth century. A member of the prominent Pennsylvania saw-manufacturing family, D&ton was first attracted to Florida in the 1870s by the lunker black bass that once …


Lord Dunmore's Loyalist Asylum In The Floridas, J. Leitch Wright, Jr. Jul 2021

Lord Dunmore's Loyalist Asylum In The Floridas, J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

To the astonishment of many, Lord John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, member of the House of Lords, formerly controversial colonial governor of New York and Virginia, became governor of the Bahama Islands in 1787. Immediately eyebrows were lifted and questions raised as to why the Earl had accepted the apparently insignificant governorship of islands whose total population, black and white, was not appreciably greater than that of Williamsburg when the colonial assembly had been in session. Dunmore had returned to America late in 1781 and had expected to resume his role as the Virginia governor in the wake of …


The Case Against A Nineteenth-Century Cuba-Florida Slave Trade, Kenneth F. Kriple Jul 2021

The Case Against A Nineteenth-Century Cuba-Florida Slave Trade, Kenneth F. Kriple

Florida Historical Quarterly

The belief that there existed a sizable clandestine traffic in Negro slaves between the island of Cuba and Florida after 1808 has been a persistent one in the historiography of slavery in the United States. There are, of course, many logical reasons for this persistence.


History News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities


History News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Redford, Billion-Dollar Sandbar: A Biography of Miami Beach, by Kathryn Hall Proby; Dean, The Tampa of My Childhood, 1897-1907, and On St. Andrews Bay, 1911-1917: A Sequel, by John D. Ware; Ford, A Comparison of Formative Cultures in the Americas: Diffusion or the Psychic Unity of Man, by William R. Bullard, Jr.; Huck and Moseley (eds.), Militarists, Merchants, and Missionaries, by Donald E. Worcester; McDermott, Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley, by William S. Coker; Brown, The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution, by Robert M. Calhoon; Owsley (ed.), The South: Old and New …


Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power, Wayne Flynt Jul 2021

Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power, Wayne Flynt

Florida Historical Quarterly

The South produced a bumper crop of political demagogues between 1890 and 1920. This unparalleled but dubious array of luminaries included James E. Ferguson of Texas, Huey Long of Louisiana, James K. Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, Tom Heflin of Alabama, Tom Watson of Georgia, Cole Blease, “Cotton” Ed Smith, and Ben Tillman of South Carolina, as well as many others. These politicos broke the back of conservative Bourbonism with their emotional appeals to the religious and racial intolerance of the newly powerful masses of voters. Once in office they frequently championed social and economic reform such as the …


Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America, E. P. Panagopoulos Jul 2021

Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America, E. P. Panagopoulos

Florida Historical Quarterly

The American writings of Chateaubriand have nearly been forgotten. Despite the beauty of their poetic prose and the power of their descriptions, historians now consider them obsolete. In 1968 the bicentennial year of his birth was celebrated in other parts of the world with special conferences and impressive publications, but in the United States no periodical commemorated the event, and no paper re-evaluating Chateaubriand’s contribution was read in any of the numerous historical meetings. And yet, Chateaubriand was not just another author. During the first half of the nineteenth century his writings played a great part in shaping French, if …


Book Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Harman, Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763, by Robert L. Gold; Carswell, Holmes Valley: A West Florida Cradle of Christianity, by John D. Ware; Snodgrass, Papers: Jacksonville Historical Society, Volume V, by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.; Castanien, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and Varner, El Inca: The Life and Times of Garcilaso de la Vega, by Luis Rafael Arana; Halbert and Ball, The Creek War of 1813 and 1814, and Longstreet, War Cries on Horseback: The Story of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains, by John K. Mahon; Onis, Memoria Sobre las Negociaciones Entre Espana …


Luis Bertucat And William Augustus Bowles: West Florida Adversaries In 1791, Jack D. L. Holmes Jul 2021

Luis Bertucat And William Augustus Bowles: West Florida Adversaries In 1791, Jack D. L. Holmes

Florida Historical Quarterly

In an effort to check the expansion of the American frontiersmen onto Indian lands after the American Revolution, William Augustus Bowles, self-styled head of the Creek-Cherokee Nation, and later “Director-General of the State of Muskogee,” wrote the Spanish minister of state, the Conde de Floridablanca, in 1791. Bowles asked for Spanish protection for the Creeks and Cherokees and urged a wider alliance or confederation of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Creeks. He also suggested that Spain modify its commercial restrictions and remove the monopoly which had been granted the firm of William Panton, Thomas Forbes, and Robert Leslie, and instead …


Educating The Seminole Indians Of Florida, 1879-1970, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Jul 2021

Educating The Seminole Indians Of Florida, 1879-1970, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was not until the 1920s that Seminole Indian children in Florida began to attend federal and public schools on a regular basis. The Seminoles were among the last tribes to accept the benefits of public school education. Much of the basis for this long resistance is found in the cultural and geographic isolation of the Seminoles. Following a series of devastating confrontations with the government between 1817 and 1858, collectively known as the Seminole Wars, most of the Seminoles who had not been killed were sent to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Those few Indians who remained in Florida …


History News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, speakers' bureau, news from local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Jahoda, The Road to Samarkand: Frederick Delius and His Music, by Evelyn Harris; Dunn, Re-Discover Florida, by Margaret L. Chapman; Stoddard, Memoirs of a Naturalist, by Elizabeth S. Austin; Willison, Patrick Henry and His World, by Aubrey C. Land; Herndon, William Tatham and the Culture of Tobacco, by Clifton L. Paisley; Hemphill (ed.), The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Volume IV, 1819-1820, by Thomas P. Govan; Wooster, The People in Power: Courthouse and State House in the Lower South, 1850-1860, by Thomas D. Clark; Hyman (ed.), Heard Round The World, by Ben Procter; Goff, Confederate Supply, by James …


Caloosahatchee Massacre: Its Significance In The Second Seminole War, George R. Adams Jul 2021

Caloosahatchee Massacre: Its Significance In The Second Seminole War, George R. Adams

Florida Historical Quarterly

Recent scholarship has put the Second Seminole War in its proper place as one of the most dramatic episodes in the period of Indian removal. The war was the longest, most expensive and most exhausting Indian conflict of the era. Hostilities lasted from 1835 to 1842, and cost an estimated $40,000,000 while over 1,400 regular army troops and an indeterminable number of militiamen, civilians, and Indians lost their lives in the swamps and wilderness of Florida. Guerrilla tactics, atrocities, almost continual negotiation, generally undistinguished military activity, frequent change of command, and conflict between civilian and military authorities characterized the struggle.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 48, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Book Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Brief notes of other books


Historical News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sanchez House, historical markers, local historical societies,


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Brooks, From Saddlebags to Satellites: A History of Florida Methodism, by Walter B. Posey; Brown, Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans, by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; Gold, Borderland Empires in Transition: Triple-Nation Transfer of Florida, by John J. TePaske; Will, Swamp to Sugar Bowl: Pioneer Days in Belle Glade, by Jeanne Bellamy; Richards, Florida’s Hibiscus City: Vero Beach, by Ernest F. Lyons; Woodward, Pocahontas, by Robert R. Rea; Rogers, Jr., Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys, by Ernest M. Lander, Jr.; Royall (ed. by Griffith), Letters …


"A Tale To Tell From Paradise Itself", George Bancroft's Letters From Florida, March 1855, Patricia Clark Jul 2021

"A Tale To Tell From Paradise Itself", George Bancroft's Letters From Florida, March 1855, Patricia Clark

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although the development of Florida as a resort for wealthy northern vacationers saw a product of the post-Civil War era, the decade preceding the war was the beginning of a modest influx of travelers, particularly to the northeast region which bordered on the St. Johns River and its tributaries. The subtropical climate, which proved to have a beneficial effect on those suffering mainly with chronic respiratory and bronchial ailments, lured the invalid, while the variety of bird and animal life attracted the hunters. In addition, there were the inveterate travelers-those disposed to adventure or goaded by curiosity as to customs …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Dinkins, Dunnellon-Boomtown of the 1890’s: The Story of Rainbow Springs and Dunnellon, by Baynard Kendrick; Lyons, My Florida, by Pat Parks; Murphy, The Frank Murphy Story, by John Frasca; Severein, Explorers of the Mississippi, by Jack D. L. Holmes; Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Paul H. Smith; Kammen, A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat; Prucha, The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; McConnell, Negro Troops of Antebellum Louisiana: A History of the Battalion of …


St. Augustine, 1784: Decadence And Repairs, John D. Ware Jul 2021

St. Augustine, 1784: Decadence And Repairs, John D. Ware

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the first of many duties of the Spanish officials upon their return to St. Augustine after an absence of twenty years was to examine and perform necessary repairs to the public buildings. Many of these had fallen into disrepair during the latter years of the British tenure.


Spanish Treaties With West Florida Indians 1784-1802, Jack D. L. Holmes Jul 2021

Spanish Treaties With West Florida Indians 1784-1802, Jack D. L. Holmes

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Bernardo de Galvez raised the lion-and-castle banner over Pensacola in 1781, British rule in West Florida came to a close and the Gulf of Mexico was again a Spanish sea. Keeping it thus was another matter, however, for the young and restless nation to the north was expansionist minded. One of the keys to Spanish defense of Louisiana and West Florida was the presence of 20,000 Indians whose friendship and support would determine who would control the area. Spanish governors and commandants signed various treaties with these Indians between 1784 and 1802. Basically, there were two types of treaties: …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 48, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Aspects Of The Development And Exploration Of The Forbes Purchase, John C. Upchurch Jul 2021

Aspects Of The Development And Exploration Of The Forbes Purchase, John C. Upchurch

Florida Historical Quarterly

Attempts at land speculation have been common in the United States. In Florida an early attempt involved an immense tract of land known as the “Forbes Purchase.” This territory, situated in the north-central part of the state bordering the Gulf of Mexico, was the object of exploitation as a unit for approximately fifty-seven years, 1804-1861. First under the trading firm of Panton, Leslie and Company and its successor John Forbes and Company, and later under the Apalachicola Land Company, this practically virgin wilderness was explored, surveyed, and to a degree developed.


Historical News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about the new cover format, various awards, local historical societies


Florida And Rumrunning During National Prohibition, James A. Carter, Iii Jul 2021

Florida And Rumrunning During National Prohibition, James A. Carter, Iii

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few periods in Florida's long, colorful history equal the excitement and turbulence of those years when national prohibition was in effect. From the outset of the "Noble Experiment" in 1920 it was apparent to even the most casual observer of events that the state was destined to play a starring role in the drama of that era. The proximity of the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands, coupled with an extensive coastline indented with innumerable bays and inlets, was a boon to liquor smuggling and rumrunning as enforcement agents quickly discovered.


Contents Of Volume Xlviii, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Contents Of Volume Xlviii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 48