Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation

Rivers, Larry Eugene

ISBN 10: 0813033810 / ISBN 13: 9780813033815

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2009

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<div><b>Winner of:</b><br><b>&#8226; The Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Book Award</b><br><b>&#8226; The Tampa Bay Historical Society&#39;s D. B. McKay Award</b><br><b>&#8226; The Florida Historical Society&#39;s Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History</b><br> &#160;<br> &#34;A thoroughly researched and balanced account of the slave experience in Florida.&#34;<b>--<i>Journal of American History</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &#34;The greater social and economic freedom born of Spanish influence and close relationships between rebellious blacks and Seminoles set the stage for the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history. A fascinating account of a variant experience of an institution too often viewed from a single perspective.&#34;<b>--<i>Booklist</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &#34;Rivers takes a very close look at slave society from various angles, as he evaluates not only slave life but the interaction of whites, blacks, and Indians. . . . Makes for a rich and multi-layered history.&#34;<b>--<i>Southern Historian</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &#34;Shows how slavery differed dramatically in different regions of the state and how, in fact, it evolved over the years in those areas.&#34;<b>--<i>Tallahassee Democrat</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &#34;Addresses how Florida&#8217;s history and geography produced conditions unlike those elsewhere in the American South.&#34;<b>--<i>Journal of Southern History</i></b><br> &#160;<br></div>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><b>Larry Eugene Rivers,</b> President of Fort Valley State College and professor of history, is the author of numerous works, and the recipient of the Arthur W. Thompson Award from the Florida Historical Society and the Carter G. Woodson Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.</p></div>

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Titel: Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to ...
Verlag: University Press of Florida
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good