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Racial Patterns Of Labor In Postbellum Florida: Gainesville, 1870-1900, David Sowell
Racial Patterns Of Labor In Postbellum Florida: Gainesville, 1870-1900, David Sowell
Florida Historical Quarterly
In July 1865, the New Era, a Gainesville newspaper, echoed the sentiments of many white Floridians with its comment: “We do not believe that any inducement can make black free labor a success. If it proves so here it will really prove what has not been proven anywhere else.“ Emancipation had broken the antebellum pattern of labor relations in the South, and many people were apprehensive of the ability of the region to assimilate freedmen successfully into a new economic system. Slavery, of course, had been far more than an economic relationship. It was the visible manifestation of a socioeconomic …
Burton-Swartz Cypress Company Of Florida, Drew Harrington
Burton-Swartz Cypress Company Of Florida, Drew Harrington
Florida Historical Quarterly
Logging operations began in Taylor County in 1913 when three men— S. J. Carpenter, W. L. Burton, and E. G. Swartz— formed the Burton-Swartz Cypress Company of Florida. Carpenter, president of Carpenter-O’Brien Lumber Company, a large Jacksonville operation, owned thousands of acres in Dixie, Taylor, and Lafayette counties. He planned a southwestward expansion, but his interest was in the pine timber of the area. Because saws which cut pine cannot be used to harvest cypress, Carpenter needed someone to “checkerboard” with him by cutting the virgin cypress on his holdings. Perhaps it was at the Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association’s Convention …
Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris
Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris
Florida Historical Quarterly
The nineteenth amendment, the women’s suffrage amendment, having been ratified by the requisite thirty-eight states, was declared a part of the United States Constitution on August 26, 1920. Tennessee cast the deciding vote. The amendment had been first proposed by Congress on June 5, 1915. Florida was not among the thirty-eight states. Ratification did not come in this state until 1969, and then only as a symbolic recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Florida League of Women Voters. Florida’s women unsuccessfully had urged their legislators since the 1890s to adopt woman’s suffrage. In 1917 the right to vote in …
First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver
First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida League of Women Voters cites 1939 as the year of its establishment. In fact, this date marks the founding of the second league of women voters in the state. An earlier organization, the Florida State League of Women Voters (FSLWV) which receives no mention in current league publications, was organized in 1921 and was disaffiliated by the national organization in 1937. The stormy history of the first league illustrates the difficulties women’s organizations in the South experienced in carving out an appropriate role in the political arena in the years following the adoption of the suffrage amendment. It …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 63, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
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 master’s theses completed in 1984 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLORIDA AND THE AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 1898-1980, by Richard Alan Nelson, reviewed by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr.; SPANISH COLONIAL FRONTIER RESEARCH, compiled and edited by Henry F. Dobyns, reviewed by John W. Griffin; HOMEWARD BOUND, A HISTORY OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS TO 1850, by Sandra Riley, BAHAMIAN LOYALISTS AND THEIR SLAVES, by Gail Saunders, reviewed by Daniel L. Schafer; SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, edited by Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, reviewed by George C. Rogers, Jr.; BLACK LIBERATION ON CUMBERLAND ISLAND IN 1815, by Mary R. Bullard, reviewed by Kenneth Coleman; THE …
Tourism Was Not The Only Purpose: Jacksonville Republicans And Newark's Sentinel Of Freedom, John T. Foster
Tourism Was Not The Only Purpose: Jacksonville Republicans And Newark's Sentinel Of Freedom, John T. Foster
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida tourism grew during the Reconstruction period, and it became a major force in the economy along the St. Johns River. Some of this development occurred as a result of stories about Florida published in northern newspapers and magazines. Among these articles are a series which appeared in a Newark, New Jersey, paper, the Sentinel of Freedom.
A Trifling Affair: Loomis Lyman Langdon And The Third Seminole War, Patricia R. Wickman
A Trifling Affair: Loomis Lyman Langdon And The Third Seminole War, Patricia R. Wickman
Florida Historical Quarterly
When, in 1899, Colonel Loomis Lyman Langdon, United States Army, Retired, penned the ironic statement which referred to “A Trifling Affair,” he did so, at least, from the vantage point of forty years of active military service to his country. His had been a long and eventful carrer and, particularly as regards Florida history, one might even say that Colonel Langdon was a man who had been in all the “right” places at all the “right” times.
Master James Cook And Gulf Coast Cartography, Robert R. Rea
Master James Cook And Gulf Coast Cartography, Robert R. Rea
Florida Historical Quarterly
The acquisition by Great Britain of Florida and cis-Mississippi Louisiana in 1763 brought with it both the need and the opportunity for a significant expansion of cartographic knowledge of the shores of the newly-created colonies of East and West Florida. Spanish and French charts of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico were rather more artistic than scientific; indeed, the tools for exact surveying had yet to be developed when the Union Jack was raised at St. Augustine, Pensacola, and Mobile. Fishermen from Havana and the occasional merchant engaged in the coasting trade might know the safe anchorages and …
Juan Baptista De Segura And The Failure Of The Florida Jesuit Mission, 1566-1572, Frank Marotti, Jr.
Juan Baptista De Segura And The Failure Of The Florida Jesuit Mission, 1566-1572, Frank Marotti, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Eugene Lyon in The Enterprise of Florida states that it is important not to ignore the “private side” of the Spanish conquest of the New World. Despite Lyon’s admonition, the personal aspect of the attempted spiritual conquest of La Florida by the Society of Jesus between 1566 and 1572, particularly its relation to the failure of the apostolic enterprise, remains somewhat neglected. The central hypothesis of this study is that the human frailties of Juan Baptista de Segura, the superior of the Jesuit undertaking, played a major role in an evangelical disaster. Segura, a fascinating idealist, after experiencing frustrating failures …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 63, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Eighty-second Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Dr. Gary Mormino, Announcements and Activities, Obituaries
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
TAMPA: THE TREASURE CITY, by Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo, reviewed by Janet Snyder Matthews; MIZNER’S FLORIDA, AMERICAN RESORT ARCHITECTURE, by Donald W. Curl, reviewed by Ivan A. Rodriguez; STETSON UNIVERSITY: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, by Gilbert L. Lycan, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; THEIR NUMBER BECOME THINNED, by Henry F. Dobyns, reviewed by Kathleen A. Deagan; CATHOLICS IN THE OLD SOUTH, edited by Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; JOHN BELL HOOD AND THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE, by Richard M. McMurry, reviewed by K. Jack Bauer; THE SOUTH RETURNS TO …
Cracker-Spanish Florida Style, James A. Lewis
Cracker-Spanish Florida Style, James A. Lewis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Over the years the regional diversity of the United States has coined scores of colorful words to describe groups of people perceived to have something in common. On occasion, these words, often pejorative in connotation, have worked their way into other languages, a classic example being the term Yankee. One of the more expressive regional terms to find its way into a foreign language has been the word cracker, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a “contemptuous name in [the] Southern States of N. America [applied] to the ‘poor whites’: Whence familiarly, to the native whites of Georgia and …
Military Duty In Antebellum Florida: The Experiences Of John Henry Winder, Arch Fredric Blakey
Military Duty In Antebellum Florida: The Experiences Of John Henry Winder, Arch Fredric Blakey
Florida Historical Quarterly
Two Catholic priests escorted and partially carried a dying man to the gallows at the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. The condemned man was Heinrich Hartmann Wirz. Branded by his executioners as the “beast of Andersonville prison,” he was hanged on November 10, 1865. He had been found guilty of conspiring to murder Union prisoners and was executed as a war criminal, the only such casualty of the Civil War.
Plantation Development In British East Florida: A Case Study Of The Earl Of Egmont, Daniel L. Schafer
Plantation Development In British East Florida: A Case Study Of The Earl Of Egmont, Daniel L. Schafer
Florida Historical Quarterly
Over dinners at their country estates and at the stylish Shakespeare Head tavern in London, British aristocrats talked excitedly in 1763 about the prospects of acquiring huge tracts of land in East Florida, a recent prize of the Seven Years War. “We are all East Florida mad,” one potential investor said, describing a “land fever” that prompted his kinsman to abandon prudent caution so as “not to miss a vast future prospect.“ Another aristocrat described the activities of his friends as “a little confused, . . . but you can make allowance for gentlemen settling a Colony over a Bottle …
Francis's Metallic Lifeboats And The Third Seminole War, George E. Buker
Francis's Metallic Lifeboats And The Third Seminole War, George E. Buker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Because Joseph Francis was a good, persistent salesman and General Thomas S. Jesup was knowledgeable about Florida and its Seminole Indians, the United States Army became interested in metallic lifeboats. By December 20, 1855, when Chief Billy Bowlegs’s warriors attacked Lieutenant George Hartsuff’s men in the Big Cypress Swamp, some of Francis’s metallic lifeboats already were in Florida waters. Thus, during the Third Seminole War, the army, for the first time, used metal boats in combat operations.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 63, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Pizarro Conference, Florida History Fair, National Register of Historic Places, Grants, Awards and Recognition, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE OLDEST CITY, edited by Jean Parker Waterbury, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A COLONIAL CREOLE COMMUNITY, By Kathleen Deagan, reviewed by John S. Otto; FORT LAUDERDALE AND BROWARD COUNTY, by Stuart B. McIver, reviewed by Thelma Peters; EDGE OF WILDERNESS: A SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF MANATEE RIVER AND SARASOTA BAY, by Janet Snyder Matthews, reviewed by Steven F. Lawson; THE PLOT TO STEAL FLORIDA: JAMES MADISON’S PHONY WAR, by Joseph Burkholder Smith, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; DOGS OF THE CONQUEST, by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell; …
Florida History In Periodicals, 1983, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Periodicals, 1983, 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 1983. 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 1983 issue of the Quarterly.
General Joseph B. Wall And Lynch Law In Tampa, Robert P. Ingalls
General Joseph B. Wall And Lynch Law In Tampa, Robert P. Ingalls
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Monday morning, March 6, 1882, the news spread quickly through Tampa, a normally sleepy community of some 1,000 people. During the previous night a man had broken into the home of a prominent family living just outside town. After stealing several small items, the intruder had assaulted a young woman of the family. According to subsequent press reports, the attacker had fled before actually raping the victim, but clues to his identity, including a knife left at the scene, put Sheriff D. Isaac Craft and a posse on his trail the following morning. With Tampans gripped by feelings of …
Florida's Cattle-Ranching Frontier: Hillsborough County (1860), John Solomon Otto
Florida's Cattle-Ranching Frontier: Hillsborough County (1860), John Solomon Otto
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1860, the southern edge of settlement— which delimited the “settled” areas with more than two persons per square mile from the “frontier” areas with fewer than two inhabitants per square mile— stood in central Florida. With the exception of a settled enclave about eastern Tampa Bay, the southern half of the Florida peninsula was a true frontier. It was the largest remaining frontier east of the Mississippi River. By 1860, the bulk of the south Florida frontier fell within the boundaries of five counties— Hillsborough, Manatee, Monroe, Brevard, and Dade whose total population was only 7,077.
Miami's Metropolitan Government: Retrospect And Prospect, Raymond A. Mohl
Miami's Metropolitan Government: Retrospect And Prospect, Raymond A. Mohl
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the past several years, the Miami metropolitan area has experienced fast-paced, almost frantic, urban change. The Liberty City and Overtown race riots of 1980 and 1982, Haitian-Cuban refugee problems, high rates of violent crime and murder, and a lucrative drug smuggling trade have all kept Miami in the national news. A new and dynamic urban economy based on international banking, foreign investment, and a prosperous Latin American-Caribbean trade has insulated Miami from the national economic recession. Indeed, during the past decade, Miami has been transformed into the trade and cultural capital of the Caribbean basin. New skyscraper construction in …
"Laying The Sins Of The L & N At Mr. Blount's Feet": William Alexander Blount's U. S. Senatorial Campaign, 1910-1911, George F. Pearce
"Laying The Sins Of The L & N At Mr. Blount's Feet": William Alexander Blount's U. S. Senatorial Campaign, 1910-1911, George F. Pearce
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Alexander Blount achieved many milestones during his illustrious career as an attorney in Pensacola, Florida. He began practicing law soon after receiving his degree from the University of Georgia in 1873. His exceptional legal mind, strong dedication to his work, and impeccable character soon won him a statewide reputation in the legal profession and attracted a large clientele. Among his corporate retainers was the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N). In 1909, after thirty-five years of practicing law, Blount opted for a chance at a political career and announced himself as a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. In …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 63, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Index To Volumne Lxii, Florida Historical Society
Index To Volumne Lxii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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