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East Florida Land Commission: A Study In Frustration, George C. Whatley Oct 2021

East Florida Land Commission: A Study In Frustration, George C. Whatley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Puritan soul of John Quincy Adams had been much mortified by the tissue of intrigue and double dealing that had surrounded his negotiations for the acquisition by his beloved United States of the Florida territory.


How To Escape The Yankees: Major Scott's Letter To His Wife At Tallahassee, March 1864, Clifton Paisley Oct 2021

How To Escape The Yankees: Major Scott's Letter To His Wife At Tallahassee, March 1864, Clifton Paisley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Middle Florida cotton plantation region that centered in Tallahassee had good reason in the spring of 1864 to fear an attack by Federal forces despite the impressive Confederate victory at the Battle of Olustee on February 20. After this bloody engagement Union troops retreated to Jacksonville, and pursuing Confederates stopped twelve miles short of the city at McGirt's Creek. They dug in there, and for months there was a standoff. Florida’s long and poorly defended shoreline provided abundant other opportunities for a Federal assault, however. Middle Florida had become particularly vulnerable to an attack with the withdrawal of Confederate …


The Female Protection And The Sun Light: Two Contemporary Negro Mutual Aid Societies, Bruce Ergood Oct 2021

The Female Protection And The Sun Light: Two Contemporary Negro Mutual Aid Societies, Bruce Ergood

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mutual Aid Societies were an integral part of the lifestyle of nineteenth-century American blacks. These precursors of contemporary insurance companies provided financial assistance to members in time of sickness and crisis and paid the burial costs of the departed member. Societies were founded in the East and throughout the South, both in rural and urban communities. Many of these societies— or burial clubs, as they are commonly called— continue to exist.


The Captives Of Florida, Eugene Lyon Oct 2021

The Captives Of Florida, Eugene Lyon

Florida Historical Quarterly

In September 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés of Spain sought out and attacked the Huguenot French in their Florida settlement. When his victory was won, a number of men, women, and children had become captives of the Spanish, while at least two Spaniards were prisoners in the hands of the French. Some of these people possessed noble blood; most were common sailors and soldiers. A few gained a degree of notoriety from their experiences– at least one of the captives was received at the court of Philip II of Spain, while another appeared before the Queen Mother of France. While …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Oct 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 50, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume L, Florida Historical Society Oct 2021

Contents Of Volume L, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 50


Florida Historical Society Officers And Directors, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Florida Historical Society Officers And Directors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists Officers, Directors, Staff, and a brief history of the Florida Historical Society


Comprehensive Index, Volume 86, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Comprehensive Index, Volume 86, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Index to Vol. 86


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memorium; Florida Historical Society Annual Awards; New Department Head for the UCF Libraries Special Collections; UCF Libraries Received IMLS Conservation Bookshelf; Orange County Regional History Center Offers Smart, Surprising, Fun Line-up During Summer and Fall of 2008; Guidelines for Submission to the Florida Historical Quarterly


New Scholarship On Florida (2006-2007), Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

New Scholarship On Florida (2006-2007), Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Quarter4 is reinstituting an earlier practice of publishing an annual list of new scholarship on Florida History. The list contains books not reviewed in the Quarterly, articles published in journals other than the Florida Historical Quarterly, chapters on Florida that appeared in edited books of essays, and theses and dissertations. The 2006-2007 list was compiled by Ryan D. Groves.


Book Notes, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Book Notes


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of: Migliazzo. To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg, South Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865. by Ashley E. Moreshead; Brown, ed. Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century. by Wesley Moody; Feller et. al. The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume VII, 1829. by Mark R. Cheathem; Basson. White Enough to Be American: Race Mixing, Indigenous People and the Boundaries of State and Nation. by Robert Cassanello; Colburn. From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Politics since 1940. by James B. Crooks; Ellenberg. Mule South to Tractor …


Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers And Slavery At Key West, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers And Slavery At Key West, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Two days after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, James Filor, a southern slaveholder and resident of Key West, Florida, mailed a remarkable letter to the president Filor wrote to convince Lincoln to include Key West with the loyal areas of the South exempted from the proclamation. After assuring the president of Key West's loyalty, Filor pressed his claim for an exemption by arguing that agents of the United States government had induced Key West citizens to purchase additional slaves in the antebellum years. He wrote that "slave property [on Key West] ... has been at various times …


Eating The Claws Of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, And The Taste Of Conservation In Florida And Beyond, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Eating The Claws Of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, And The Taste Of Conservation In Florida And Beyond, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Don't miss the stone crab-it's in season now," counseled Kathryn Loring to her sister before she and her husband made their first trip from Chicago to Florida in February of 1960. Once in Florida, Loring and her husband took her sister's advice, embarking on a self-proclaimed "sea food binge" that included devouring mullet, pompano, New England and Manhattan-style clam chowder, red snapper, shrimp, and, of course, stone crab. They found the "sweet and delectable" claws of stone crab at Hudgins Cafe in West Palm Beach, Florida, where surrounded by other sun-burned tourists they consumed the meat of a crab that …


Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt To Build Interama, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt To Build Interama, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Miami, Florida, has long been considered a Western hemispheric hub; Pan-American Airways, for example, began advertising the city as the "Gateway to the Americas" in the early 1930s. By mid-20th century, some 600,000 people traveling to and from Latin America passed through Miami each year, encouraging the city's Chamber of Commerce to organize a series of inter-American business meetings during the 1950s. The Chamber also waged a battle at that time to abolish a federal tax levied on travelers to the Caribbean and Central America. Thereafter, several decades of political turmoil in the region figuratively and literally latinized Miami, most …


Table Of Contents, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Table Of Contents, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt to Build INTERAMA Michael Hoover
Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond Nicolaas Mink
Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West Mark A. Smith
Book Reviews
Book Notes
New Scholarship on Florida (2006-2007)
End Notes
Index for Volume 86


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 86, Number 4


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 86, Number 4, Florida Historical Society Sep 2021

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 86, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt to Build INTERAMA Michael Hoover
Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond Nicolaas Mink
Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West Mark A. Smith
Book Reviews
Book Notes
New Scholarship on Florida (2006-2007): Books on Florida, Journal Articles on Florida, Chapters in Books, Theses and Dissertations
End Notes
Index for Volume 86


Minutes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the Directors' Meeting in December 1970


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 Dibble and Newton (eds.), In Search of Gulf Coast Colonial History, by Laura D. S. HarreII; Smith, Strengthening the Florida Legislature: An Eagleton Study and Report, by Manning J . Dauer; Kammen, Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism, by Trevor Colbourn; Lycan, Alexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy, by Jack Sosin; Kerber, Federalists in Dissent: imagery and Ideology in Jefiersonian America, by Frank A. Cassell; Curtis, The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841, by Thomas P. Govan; Bernath, Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy, …


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 …


Manuscript Aquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Manuscript Aquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A list of acquisitions in Florida libraries of new books about Florida


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 …


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 …


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.


Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long Jul 2021

Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historican have yet to devote the thought and research to urbanization in the South that the subject deserves. Coulter’s brief attention to the growth and role of cities and towns in the Reconstruction era, Van Woodward’s similarly brief concern with cities in his Origins of the New South, Ezell’s short treatment in his textbook survey, Park’s interpretative chapter in Couch’s Culture in the South, and Vance’s edited work on the recent South nearly exhaust the list of serious histories which offer even slight leads about southern urbanization. A survey of the Journal of Southern History and state historical journals is …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 49, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Jul 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.