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Author Marotti, Frank, 1954-

Title Heaven's soldiers : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / Frank Marotti.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Atlantic crossings
Atlantic crossings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Looking backward and forward -- The 1820s : anxious optimism -- The 1830s : manumission, property, and family -- The Second Seminole War -- Restricted manumission, migrations, and antimiscegenation -- Preserving Spanish days : marriage and manumission -- The black martial heritage -- Land, paternalism, and laws.
Summary Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations in pre-Civil War East Florida to the area's Spanish heritage. While acknowledging the importance of that heritage, this book gives more than the usual emphasis to the role of African American agency in exploiting the limited opportunities that such a heritage permitte.
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Subject Free African Americans -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans.
Florida -- Saint Johns County.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Florida -- Saint Johns County -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
Seminole War (2nd) (1835-1842)
Saint Johns County (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century.
Florida -- History -- 1821-1865.
Florida.
Chronological Term 1821-1865
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Marotti, Frank, 1954- Heaven's soldiers. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012042395
ISBN 9780817386535 (electronic book)
081738653X (electronic book)
9780817317843 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper)