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Another Invisible Man: Alexander H. Darnes, M.D., Charles A. Tingley May 2022

Another Invisible Man: Alexander H. Darnes, M.D., Charles A. Tingley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The term "invisible man" has become a cliche for the evaporative effect of the Jim Crow Era on African American men and women and the memory of their lives.1 This article is the story of one such man of great stature who became invisible. What started as the search for a young slave boy named Aleck turned in to the re-discovery of Dr. Alexander Hanson Darnes, who was taken as a teenager to a U. S. Army cavalry post in the West, went through the Civil War as the personal valet of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, gained freedom through …

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A Flower At Elmira: The Prisoner Of War Diary Of Wilbur Wightman Gramling, Robert Saunders, Jr. May 2022

A Flower At Elmira: The Prisoner Of War Diary Of Wilbur Wightman Gramling, Robert Saunders, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

I-want-to-go-home-so-bad. These forlorn words, expressing such homesickness, appear lengthwise within the right margin on the last page of Wilbur Wightman Gramling's pocket diary, a day-by-day journal of his experiences while imprisoned at Elmira Prisoner-of-War (POW) Camp in New York during the Civil War. Struck by a minie ball in the right arm and captured at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, Gramling, a private in Florida's 5th Infantry, spent eleven months at Elmira Prison. The journal he faithfully kept throughout his imprisonment is the only known existing document of this type written by a Florida soldier.1

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Runaway Slave Advertisements In Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective, Matthew J. Clavin May 2022

Runaway Slave Advertisements In Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective, Matthew J. Clavin

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the abolitionist minister's observation suggests, enslaved African Americans were neither content nor happy. Indeed, rom day-to-day acts of covert resistance to brazen acts of open rebellion, slaves in the antebellum United States daily proved the lie of paternalism as even a cursory glance at the historiography of the South over the last half-century attests. Nevertheless, for anyone still unconvinced of the American slaves' thirst for freedom, there is a large cache of historical records that obliterate the myth of black Southerners accepting their enslaved status passively. Published in independently owned newspapers in nearly every significant city and town in …

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"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility And Power In The Second Seminole War, Christine A. Rizzi May 2022

"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility And Power In The Second Seminole War, Christine A. Rizzi

Florida Historical Quarterly

Five days after Christmas in 1837, Brigadier General Thomas Sidney Jesup wrote a letter to Colonel Zachary Taylor on the subject of cypress canoes. The latter officer was fresh off an engagement against a large band of Seminole Indians. Taylor's force of 800 regular soldiers and volunteers engaged some 400 Seminole warriors and their black allies on the north shore of Lake Okeechobee.1 The Indian group, led by fabled leaders Sam Jones, Alligator, and Wild Cat, retreated across the lake after injuring and killing a significant number of Taylor's detachment.2 With the enemy withdrawing across the large, unfamiliar lake, and …

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Abiaka, Or Sam Jones, In Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis Through The Third Seminole War, Patsy West May 2022

Abiaka, Or Sam Jones, In Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis Through The Third Seminole War, Patsy West

Florida Historical Quarterly

The general flight path to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport gives a clear aerial view of two major elements of this story. First is a direct flyover of the Pine Island Complex, a prominent greenspace that was the two-and-a-half-mile-long habitation island of Abiaka, or Sam Jones, and his Mikasuki people. During the Second Seminole War, the island was often referred to as Sam Jones' "stronghold," used by Jones and his Mikasuki leaders until the last year of the conflict.

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Interpreting Florida, Its Ninetenth-Century Literary Heritage, Maurice O'Sullivan May 2022

Interpreting Florida, Its Ninetenth-Century Literary Heritage, Maurice O'Sullivan

Florida Historical Quarterly

In January 1827, Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 23-year-old licensed but not yet ordained minister plagued by religious doubt and failing health, came to St. Augustine. As he wrote in a letter to his brother William, he found himself constantly bored during his two and a half months residence: "What is done here? Nothing .... I stroll on the sea-beach and drive a green orange over the sand with a stick. Sometimes I sail in a boat, sometimes I sit in a chair."1

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Historiography Of Nineteenth-Century Florida, James G. Cusick May 2022

Historiography Of Nineteenth-Century Florida, James G. Cusick

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the nineteenth century began, Florida, or the two colonial territories that became the modern state, was still under Spanish rule, its residents untouched as yet by coming rebellion and war. When the century closed, Florida was part of the American Deep South, looking to northern financiers for its Gilded Age development while creating Jim Crow laws as a buttress against calls for racial equality.

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500 Years Of Florida History - The Nineteenth Century To 1877, Connie L. Lester May 2022

500 Years Of Florida History - The Nineteenth Century To 1877, Connie L. Lester

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the course of the first seven decades of the nineteenth century Floridians lived under Spanish rule (1784-1821) and spent more than two decades as a territory of the United States before gaining statehood. Florida joined the Confederate States during the Civil War. By the time Florida re-emerged from Reconstruction, the modern world of railroads, industrial capitalism, and urbanization characterized the United States. The essays that constitute this special issue document the transformation of Florida from its colonial period through the era of slavery, the Seminole and Civil wars to the post-emancipation rise of an African American physician. Future scholars …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 94, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

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End Notes, Florida Historical Society May 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Memorial for Juanita Evangeline Moore; 2016 Meeting & Symposium of the Florida Historical Society; FHS Acquires the Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science; The Florida Historical Society Archaelogical Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly News: New Editorial Board Member; FHQ Website, Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts, Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR, Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication; Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History Presents the 2015-2016 Florida Lecture Series;

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ward, Bone, and Link, eds., The American South and the Atlantic World. by Kevin Dawson; Narrett, Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803. by J.C.A. Stagg; Rosen, Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood. by Andrew K. Frank; Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. by Ted Maris-Wolf; Weiner and Hough, Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South. by David Torbett; Smith and Lowery, eds., The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction by Adam Fairclough; Corrigan, Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida. by …

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Republica De Bandidos: The Prospect Bluff Fort's Challenge To The Spanish Slave System, John Paul Nuno May 2022

Republica De Bandidos: The Prospect Bluff Fort's Challenge To The Spanish Slave System, John Paul Nuno

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the waning days of March 1815, Vicente Sebastian Pintado's ship was anchored in tempestuous waters near the mouth of the Apalachicola River at a place the Spanish called Loma de Buenavista, known to the British as Prospect Bluff. As the surveyor general of the Spanish West Florida colony, he headed a delegation to a recently constructed fortification built by the British and their indigenous and Afro-Floridian allies. Pintado's correspondence with Captain Robert Spencer, the ranking British officer present, echoed the unsettled nature of his mission. The Prospect Bluff Fort, located in Spanish territory, was transitioning from a strategic British …

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Currency, Credit, Crisis, And Cuba: The Fed's Early History In Florida, Lesley Mace May 2022

Currency, Credit, Crisis, And Cuba: The Fed's Early History In Florida, Lesley Mace

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the early years of the Federal Reserve System, two crises-one in Cuba, the other in Florida-and their resolution tactics provided a potential blueprint for dealing with the national banking crisis that developed after the 1929 stock market crash. The story of that lost opportunity begins with the organization of the Federal Reserve System and the Reserve Banks in the South. After President Woodrow Wilson signed the new Federal Reserve Act into law at the end of 1913, the first task for the-Reserve Bank Organization Committee was to choose the locations of what were known as the "Federal Reserve cities" …

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Reconstituting Power In An American Borderland: Political Change In Colonial East Florida, Nancy O. Gallman May 2022

Reconstituting Power In An American Borderland: Political Change In Colonial East Florida, Nancy O. Gallman

Florida Historical Quarterly

On his 10,000-acre plantation along the St. Johns River, Francis Philip Fatio had much to claim. With the labor of more than eighty slaves, Fatio and his partner investors established a thriving plantation in former Native territory soon after they arrived in British East Florida in 1771. Named in honor of his homeland, Fatio's "New Switzerland" plantation excelled in the production of timber, cattle, citrus fruits, and naval stores.1 Historians once suggested that lasting only twenty-one years, East Florida's British period was too brief to have much impact on the development of the colony: "too short for the roots to …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 94, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

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Sucking, Blood, And Fire: Timucuan Healing Practices In Spanish Florida, Tamara Shircliff Spike May 2022

Sucking, Blood, And Fire: Timucuan Healing Practices In Spanish Florida, Tamara Shircliff Spike

Florida Historical Quarterly

As a colonial holding, Spanish Florida was a provincial backwater. It was located on the periphery of empire and parsely settled. Spain spent comparatively little time and effort developing the infrastructure of the colony.1 However, it is for these very reasons that Florida reflects to a magnified degree a problem in mission fields throughout the Americas during the colonial period: how to combat disease in the mission populations while still working to extirpate Native practices seen as anti-doctrinal. Descriptions of healing rituals by Franciscan friars and other Europeans offer tremendous insight into how the Timucuans of Spanish Florida viewed their …

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End Notes, Florida Historical Society May 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHS Acquires the Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science; The Florida Historical Society Archaelogical Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly News: FHQ Website, Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts, Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR, Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Balsera and May, eds., La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence. by Erin W. Stone; Little, The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1760. by Edward Bond; Murray, The Charleston Orphan House: Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America. by Monique Bourque; Gleeson, The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America. by Ian Delahanty; Harris and Berry, eds., Slavery and Freedom in Savannah. by Michael Benjamin; Monroe, Mary Ann Carroll, First Lady of the Highwaymen. by Paul S. George; Dorsey, Fourth Down in Dunbar. by Richard C. …

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'Gators Making Merry In Cuba: The University Of Florida Football Team In Havana, December 1912, Michael T. Wood May 2022

'Gators Making Merry In Cuba: The University Of Florida Football Team In Havana, December 1912, Michael T. Wood

Florida Historical Quarterly

Two vertically arranged photographs of the University of Florida's football team wearing bathing suits on a beach appear in the 1913 edition of the school's yearbook, The Seminole. The top picture shows the squad in formation, ready to run offensive drills. In the bottom one, every player smiles for the camera as they form a human pyramid. A caption under the two photos reads, "'Gators making merry in Cuba."1

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Throwing The Explorer Out With The Fountain: American History Textbooks And Juan Ponce De Leon, Roger Chapman May 2022

Throwing The Explorer Out With The Fountain: American History Textbooks And Juan Ponce De Leon, Roger Chapman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Someone once critically categorized American history textbooks, perhaps unfairly, as "fat, dull boring books that mention everything but explain practically nothing."1 A cursory survey of US history textbooks on the treatment of Juan Ponce de Leon and the "discovery" of Florida would suggest historical content is like an ice cube melting in the sun.2

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The Rise Of Jim Crow In Fort Myers, 1885-1930, Jonathan Harrison May 2022

The Rise Of Jim Crow In Fort Myers, 1885-1930, Jonathan Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

The power and opportunities of African Americans in Florida between the 1880s and 1920s fluctuated across time and location and were affected by variations in local economic structures, migration patterns and cultural histories. Black property ownership, political participation and social prestige were in flux, impacted by such factors as the availability of public land for cultivation by blacks, the cultures of the places from which new residents had migrated, and whether the area was a new settlement or one that was carrying forward a set of social relationships that had been formed during the slavery period. Each of these factors …

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Religion And Women's Rights In Florida: An Examination Of The Equal Rights Amendment Legislative Debates, 1972-1982, Laura E. Brock May 2022

Religion And Women's Rights In Florida: An Examination Of The Equal Rights Amendment Legislative Debates, 1972-1982, Laura E. Brock

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida housewife Adele Kanter's letter was prototypical of religious women who were supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).3 Community activist and housewife Shirley Spellerberg's letter was representative of religious opponents of the ERA. Women were mobilized to enter the political arena, many for the first time, on both sides of the ERA conflict. Florida was the key battleground state where the ERA failed after an intense decade-long (1972-1982) political battle that was an intersection of religious, gender and social issues. Examining the history of Florida's ERA conflict is significant because religious and social themes recur in contemporary public policy …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 94, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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Comprehensive Index: 2014-2015 (Volume 93), Florida Historical Society May 2022

Comprehensive Index: 2014-2015 (Volume 93), Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Florida History In Publications, 2014, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Florida History In Publications, 2014, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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End Notes, Florida Historical Society May 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Raymond A. Mohl, 1938-2015; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI) at the Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Society 2015 Award Recipients; Florida Historical Quarterly News: FHQ Website, Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Call for Papers Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Worth, ed. and trans., Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast. by Tamara Shircliff Spike; Gleeson and Lewis, eds., Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans. by Matthew Mason; Gallagher, Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty. by Brian Matthew Jordan; Lees and Gaske, Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War. by Matthew Mace Barbee; Glancy, Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education. by Leanne Wiggins; Connolly, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. by Robert Cassanello; Berg, Wilson. by …

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Swaim Family Papers: Civil War Reports And Letters Of Recommendation For A Carpetbagger, John T. Foster, Jr. May 2022

Swaim Family Papers: Civil War Reports And Letters Of Recommendation For A Carpetbagger, John T. Foster, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Yankee families became involved in Florida during the Civil War and in the Reconstruction. For example, the family of the American merchant John Jacob Astor owned a tiny railroad that connected Tocoi on the St.Johns River with St. Augustine; they later sold it to New York industrialist and founder of Standard Oil, Henry Flagler. The family of New York-born writer Henry James invested in a cotton plantation in Alachua County. Best known perhaps is Harriet Beecher Stowe's orange grove in Mandarin where she and her family wintered for seventeen years. The origins of these ventures remained largely unexplored as Florida …

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Camp Blanding Station Hospital In The War Years, George E. Cressman, Jr. May 2022

Camp Blanding Station Hospital In The War Years, George E. Cressman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Preparation for and entry into World War II required significant changes in the United States, especially for the U.S. Army. Mobilization of manufacturing facilities created noteworthy opportunities for women to work in jobs traditionally considered the domain of men. Construction at camps and forts drove substantial improvement for local economics still suffering from the aftershocks of the great depression. And millions of men-and a large number of women-entered military service.

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By The Shores Of The Phosphorescent Seas: Lafcadio Hearn's Journey To Florida's Mysterious Fountain, Maxwell J. Stillwell May 2022

By The Shores Of The Phosphorescent Seas: Lafcadio Hearn's Journey To Florida's Mysterious Fountain, Maxwell J. Stillwell

Florida Historical Quarterly

Why these longings for lands in which we shall never be?-why this desire for that azure into which we cannot soar?-whence our mysterious love for that tumultuous deep into whose emerald secrets we may never peer? wrote Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) while visiting Florida in 1885. "Has it not often seemed to you that the more antiquated and the more unfamiliar an object or a place is, the more it appears at first sight to live,- to possess a sort of inner being, a fetish-spirit, a soul?"2 Such are the questions a reader of the great impressionistic writer might expect him …

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