LEADER 00000cam a2200721Ma 4500 001 ocn841171735 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041008.5 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 121115s2013 aluac ob 001 0 eng d 019 831118445 020 9780817386535|q(electronic book) 020 081738653X|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780817317843|q(trade cloth ;|qalkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)841171735|z(OCoLC)831118445 040 E7B|beng|epn|cE7B|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dN$T|dEBLCP|dP@U |dDEBSZ|dCOO|dOCLCQ 043 n-us-fl 049 RIDW 050 4 F317.S18|bM37 2013eb 072 7 SOC|x054000|2bisacsh 082 04 306.3/620975918|223 090 F317.S18|bM37 2013eb 100 1 Marotti, Frank,|d1954-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n89602684 245 10 Heaven's soldiers :|bfree people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida /|cFrank Marotti. 264 1 Tuscaloosa :|bUniversity of Alabama Press,|c2013. 300 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) :|billustrations, portraits. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Atlantic crossings 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 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. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 647 7 Seminole War (2nd)|d(1835-1842)|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1112331 648 7 19th century|2fast 648 7 1821-1865|2fast 650 0 Free African Americans|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh94005575|zFlorida|zSaint Johns County|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79095313-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh2002006167 650 0 Free African Americans|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh94005575|xLegal status, laws, etc.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004999|zFlorida|zSaint Johns County|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n79095313-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 650 0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85123317|zFlorida|zSaint Johns County|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79095313-781 |xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh2002006167 650 0 Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85119944 650 7 Free African Americans.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/933834 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1120540 650 7 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|xBritish colonies.|2fast |0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1120542 650 7 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|xFrench colonies.|2fast |0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1120546 651 0 Saint Johns County (Fla.)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n79095313|xHistory|y19th century.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 651 0 Florida|xHistory|y1821-1865.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85049234 651 7 Florida|zSaint Johns County.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1206166 651 7 Florida.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205150 655 4 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aMarotti, Frank, 1954-|tHeaven's soldiers.|dTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013 |w(DLC) 2012042395 830 0 Atlantic crossings.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no2008134473 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=585088|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID