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The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the annual meeting

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Florida Becomes a State. Introduction and edited documents by Dorothy Dodd; foreword by W. T. Cash. (Tallahassee : Florida Centennial Commission. 1945. Pp. xi, 481. $3.50), and John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier. by John Richard Alden. University of Michigan Publications in History and Political Science, Vol. XV. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1944. (xii, 384 p. $4.00.)

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“Tequesta” 1945, The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

“Tequesta” 1945, The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Number five of Tequesta, The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1945 issue, dated January, 1946, has appeared, and as usual contains a number of interesting articles. This issue, as was the last one, is edited by Professor Leonard R. Muller of the University of Miami; in fact, these publications are issued as bulletins of the University.

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The Port Of St. Augustine During The British Regime, Part Ii, Wilbur H. Siebert Mar 2021

The Port Of St. Augustine During The British Regime, Part Ii, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

Loyal to King George III, East Florida soon became involved with her rebellious neighbors to the northward. Wartime was reflected in the shipping at St. Augustine and the privateering in nearby waters. The first hostility of that neighborhood was the seizure of one hundred and eleven barrels and thirty-seven kegs of gunpowder from the English brigantine Betsy in July 1775 by a South Carolina sloop outside the bar. The aggressor escaped to the northward.

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Pioneer Florida: Mexican Squadron At Key West, 1827, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: Mexican Squadron At Key West, 1827, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

All general encyclopedias of American biography include an account of the life of David Porter (1780-1843), United States naval officer, whose exploits while in command of the Essex in the South Pacific in the War of 1812, remain a saga in the history of our early navy. These accounts, however, do not include an important event in Commodore Porter’s career, the scene of which was laid at and around Key West, Florida, in 1827, and therefore is a part of Florida’s history.

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Notes On The “Catalogo De Los Fondos De Las Floridas", Albert C. Manucy Mar 2021

Notes On The “Catalogo De Los Fondos De Las Floridas", Albert C. Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

The reference is to the great Mississippi, and on this keynote is sounded the broad theme of Catalogo de los Fondos de las Floridas, which, in free translation might be titled “Catalog of the Florida Papers.” Published in format similar to the well-known Carnegie archival guides, the book is an illuminating index to an interesting period in the history of the area between Savannah and New Orleans, from the Florida Keys to the lower Mississippi Valley.

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The Negro Abraham, Kenneth W. Porter Mar 2021

The Negro Abraham, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the most remarkable personalities produced by the African race in this country before general emancipation was an illiterate runaway slave who spent almost all his mature life among Seminole Indians. This judgment is, perhaps, either too cautious to be meaningful or too bold to be convincing, according to the direction from which one chooses to approach it.

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 25, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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Illustration, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Illustration, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A drawing from a photograph made in New York and published in The Illustrated London News, May 21, 1853.

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Contents Of Volume Xxv, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 25

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Grief Work With The Philly Death Doula Collective: An Oral History Project, Leo L. Williams Mar 2021

Grief Work With The Philly Death Doula Collective: An Oral History Project, Leo L. Williams

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

On March 25th, 2021 a Master’s student in American Studies (Leo Williams) at the University of New Mexico met with the Philly Death Doula Collective over Zoom. The current members of the collective are Lori Zaspel, Kai Wonder, and Nicki Cowan, social workers, and Death Doulas living in Philadelphia. In this oral history interview, the collective speaks to their vision of death care infrastructure, their goals and services as a collective, how COVID-19 has affected them, and their relationship to death positive activism.

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Intersections Of Race And Place In Short Fiction By New Orleans Gens De Couleur Libres, Adrienne D. Vivian Mar 2021

Intersections Of Race And Place In Short Fiction By New Orleans Gens De Couleur Libres, Adrienne D. Vivian

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Although New Orleans joined the United States following the Louisiana Purchase, the city’s French colonial period continued to influence New Orleanians. The lives and writing of nineteenth century New Orleans gens de couleur libres, free people of color, document continued exchanges with France and the Caribbean despite the city’s increasing Americanization. Drawing from Westphal’s theoretical work on geocriticism, Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres locates sites of transgressivity and their representations in writers Michel Séligny, Adolphe Duhart, and Victor Séjour’s French language short stories. Chapter One examines New Orleans’s historical and …

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“Telling The Trauma: Fiction Of Black Lives & Death”, Frank Dobson Mar 2021

“Telling The Trauma: Fiction Of Black Lives & Death”, Frank Dobson

Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

Black trauma and death, particularly by racially motivated violence, represents a significant contemporary crisis in America. Even prior to the Black Lives Matter movement of recent years, several Black writers chronicled historical incidents of such deaths. Philadelphia Fire (2005), by John Edgar Wideman, is a novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the Move compound and the resultant deaths of eleven Black people and the destruction by fire of a Black neighborhood. Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999), by Toni Cade Bambara examines the serial killings during the early 1980’s known as the Atlanta Child Murders. Rendered Invisible: …

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The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Florida Under Five Flags, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review: Florida Under Five Flags, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Florida Under Five Flags. By Rembert W. Patrick, Professor of Social Sciences, University of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1945. (139 p. 110 illus. $2.50)

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Book Review: Economic Pattern Of A Resort Area, Kathryn Abbey Hanna Mar 2021

Book Review: Economic Pattern Of A Resort Area, Kathryn Abbey Hanna

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Miami: Economic Pattern of a Resort Area. By Reinhold Paul Wolff. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1945. 172 p. charts and tables.

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The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722. Part Ii, Stanley Faye Mar 2021

The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722. Part Ii, Stanley Faye

Florida Historical Quarterly

The brothers Lemoyne began Louisiana’s war against Mexico, as told in part one of this narrative. Francois Blondel de la Tour continued it. One month after the fall of San Carlos (at Pensacola bay) the commandant of Natchitoches led the six men remaining in his garrison against San Miguel de Adaes, the nearest Spanish mission of Texas. He captured one of the two Spanish soldiers. who formed the garrison there, but neither Blondel nor Governor Alarcon at Mission Dolores (near Nacogdoches, Texas) possessed military strength for further operations. Natchitoches waited in stalemate until the Company of the Indies should open …

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Historic Artifacts And The Buzzard Cult In Florida, John W. Griffin Mar 2021

Historic Artifacts And The Buzzard Cult In Florida, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

An extensive literature on the archaeology of Florida has been amassed over a considerable number of years. By far the greater part of this literature is purely descriptive, and it is the purpose of this paper to take some of the older materials and interpret them in the light of current archaeological knowledge; knowledge which has advanced at an almost breathtaking rate in the past decade. For our purposes we shall select seven related artifacts from southern Florida; made of gold, silver, brass, stone and wood.

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Physicians And Medicine In Early Jacksonville, Webster Merritt Mar 2021

Physicians And Medicine In Early Jacksonville, Webster Merritt

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the years 1829 to 1833, New Ross, a typical plantation of the early nineteenth century, lay on the border of the St. Johns river about four miles above Jacksonville. Of the happenings on the plantation Judge F. Bethune, its owner, kept a comprehensive account in his diary. On Friday, April 5, 1833, he wrote, “Andrew sick.” On Monday, April 8, he recorded, “Went to Jacksonville court Andrew sick,” and on the following day he added, “at Jacksonville returned before dinner with Dr. Hall had Andrew bled.” This account of the treatment of one of Judge Bethune’s slaves in accordance …

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Pioneer Florida, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Essays include Destruction of Port Leon, The First Militia Organization, and The Wild Tallahassee of 1827

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The Port Of St. Augustine During The British Regime, Wilbur H. Siebert Mar 2021

The Port Of St. Augustine During The British Regime, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

A little more than six miles of Anastasia island, eastward of St. Augustine, is shown on the old map by De Brahm, one-time surveyor-general for the Southern District of British America. The channel is depicted and, less than a mile east of the fortress or “castle,” the bar. The Look-out Tower stands two thirds of the island’s width at that point from its inner side, a little more than a fifth of a mile from its outer side, and half a mile from the shore directly north. De Brahm’s survey was made in 1765 and 1766. On a much earlier …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 24, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

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The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Resources For The History Of The British Floridas, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Resources For The History Of The British Floridas, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

As is well known, the history of Florida falls naturally and very definitely into periods of nationalities. Of these the British era is the most sharply defined. And this is the only period whose history has largely been written-which means that, except for the details of the general history and for certain subjects, the materials available have mostly been used. For this British occupation these resources are mainly governmental archives in the Public Record Office in London. That mass of documents has been used by writers on specific subjects, but for general coverage there are two works: Professor Mowat’s on …

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Tiger Tail, Kenneth W. Porter Mar 2021

Tiger Tail, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

The career of Thlocklo Tustenuggee (Fish Warrior), better known by his nickname of Tiger Tail, who was one of the most determinedly hostile of the Seminole chiefs in the war of 1835-42, may be of no great importance. It has, however, already received sufficient attention to justify, it would seem, the addition of new information. The standard account, found in Sprague, is that he died, perhaps of homesickness, shortly after his transportation from Florida. It has, however, been more recently asserted that Tiger Tail never left Florida, but, substituting one of his. warriors, who had been beaten into unrecognizability in …

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Writing Local History, Lillie B. Mcduffee Mar 2021

Writing Local History, Lillie B. Mcduffee

Florida Historical Quarterly

Probably in every one of Florida’s sixty-seven counties there is waiting for some aspiring writer of history a wealth of material which could be used effectively in building a county or local history. This is a field of endeavor which in Florida has largely been neglected, and one which should arouse the pride of Floridians over the State who may be history-minded.

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Pioneer Florida: The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Pioneer Florida: The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conformably to the law, the first Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida was to meet at Pensacola on Monday, June 10, 1822. On that day several members met, but owing to lack of a quorum occasioned by the non-arrival of the East Florida members they adjourned until the 17th. On the 17th, the East Florida members had not arrived and there was another adjournment. It was not until July 22 that the Council organized with a quorum attained through the arrival of some of the members from East Florida. These bare facts are all that official records show; for …

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The Seminole Negroes Of Andros Island, Bahamas, John M. Goggin Mar 2021

The Seminole Negroes Of Andros Island, Bahamas, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a recent article in this journal, Kenneth W. Porter has raised the question of the identity of the Indian negroes of Andros Island in the Bahamas. As the result of investigations on Andros Island in the summer of 1937, it is possible to clarify the problem, and positively to identify the legendary Indians of Andros Island as Seminole Negroes. A more detailed historical investigation of the problem had been contemplated, but present conditions make it impossible to complete the research as originally outlined.

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Governor Salazar’S Wheat Farm Project, 1645-1657, Katherine S. Lawson Mar 2021

Governor Salazar’S Wheat Farm Project, 1645-1657, Katherine S. Lawson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The governors of Florida from the founding of St. Augustine in 1565 to the evacuation in 1763 were continually faced with food shortage, even with starvation; for St. Augustine knew hunger pangs many times, when ships bringing supplies to the Presidio were wrecked, were captured by pirates, or in some years failed to be sent from Mexico with the flour ordered furnished to Florida by the king’s command. So of much interest are the records of a project, covering the years 1645 to 1657, for a wheat farm (trigo hacienda) the result of the determination of Governor Salazar (who may …

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The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722, Part I, Stanley Faye Mar 2021

The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722, Part I, Stanley Faye

Florida Historical Quarterly

John Law’s Mississippi Bubble of speculation began to inflate itself on September 26, 1717, when Law’s Company of the West made ready to colonize Louisiana. Yet Law in Paris already knew that a sandbar had blocked up the one seaport of Louisiana that he thought suitable for receiving his transatlantic vessels. Five years later the bubble persisted only in memory, the bubble-maker lingered in exile and necessity persuaded light-draft French shipping to enter the Mississippi river. In the course of those five years the Company of the West had searched unavailingly for another deep, suitable and almost necessary port, and …

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