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Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee strangers : the transformation of FloridaEntry/Object ID
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xix, 158 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee strangers : the transformation of Florida by John T. Foster, Jr.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152) and index.
Inscribed by the authors on title page "To Pat"
Summary: Modern Florida - a world of tourists, retirees from the North, and subtropical agriculture - began at the end of the Civil War among a group of Yankee reformers including Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and her brother, Charles, who lived in Florida between 1867 and 1885. This book tells the story of the group and of their designs for a postwar Florida.
Contents: Preface: An Ebony Table and Yankee Strangers --Harriet Beecher Stowe and Reform in the South -- Civil War Fernandina -- Civil War Plans to Seize Florida -- Sphinx at the Gate of Thebes: Presidential Reconstruction -- Early Congressional Reconstruction: Mandarin and Jacksonville -- Harrison Reed: Politics and Marriage -- Political Apex: Charles Beecher in Office -- Palmetto-Leaves and Depression -- The Twentieth Century Envisioned -- The Cast Exits: Suffering and Glory -- Legacy.Collection
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Florida., Florida -- History -- 1865- ., Florida -- Biography., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.Publication Details
Author
Foster, John T., Jr., Foster, Sarah Whitmer, jt. authorPublisher
University of Florida PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Gainesville, Fla.Call No.
F 316 .F695 1999ISBN
0813016460LCCN
98049291