Title Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War / Edward E. Baptist

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 392 pages) : illustrations Contents Origins and Outcomes -- The Peculiar Benefits of Florida -- Countrymen -- Forced Migration -- Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida -- Jack in the New Ground -- Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire: The Crisis of Middle Florida -- White Men Are Very Uncertain: Slavery and Frontier Society -- Creating an Old South -- Remaking History Conclusion Summary Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an "Old", changeless South which only papered over the struggles Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-377) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Plantation life -- Florida -- History -- 19th century White people -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 19th century Plantation owners -- Florida -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 19th century Social classes -- Florida -- History -- 19th century Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida Land settlement -- Social aspects -- Florida -- History -- 19th century Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 19th century History, 19th Century Social Conditions -- history Race Relations -- history Black or African American -- history HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. African Americans -- Social conditions Frontier and pioneer life Land settlement -- Social aspects Migration, Internal Plantation life Plantation owners Race relations Social classes White people -- Social condition Plantages. Frontier. Sociaal-economische situatie. Soziale Situation Plantagenwirtschaft SUBJECT Florida -- History -- 1821-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049234 Florida -- Race relations Florida Subject Florida United States Florida Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001053080 ISBN 9780807826881 080782688X 0807860034 9780807860038

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