Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil WarUniv of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 392 pages Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book 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. Soon after the United States acquired Florida f |
Contents
The Peculiar Benefits of Florida | 16 |
Countrymen | 37 |
Forced Migration | 61 |
HotBlooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida | 88 |
Jack in the New Ground | 120 |
Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire The Crisis of Middle Florida | 154 |
White Men Are Very Uncertain Slavery and Frontier Society | 191 |
Creating an Old South | 219 |
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