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Black society in Spanish FloridaEntry/Object ID
Library.2170Description
xiv, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Black society in Spanish Florida / Jane Landers ; foreword by Peter H. Wood.
Includes index and notes on sources.
Contents: Precedents for Afro-Caribbean society in Florida -- The origins of a Florida sanctuary : Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose -- Transitions -- Black entrepreneurs and property-holders -- Black religious life -- The lives of Black women -- Slaves and the slave trade -- Crime and punishment -- Black military service -- Racial geopolitics and the demise of Spanish Florida.
Appendix 1: Pardo and Moreno Militia of St. Augustine, 1683 -- Appendix 2: Slaves petitioning for freedom, 1738 -- Appendix 3: Black militia company of Gracia Real De Santa Teresa De Mose, 1764 -- Appendix 4: Land grants to free Blacks, 1784-1821 -- Appendix 5: Census of Gracia Real De Santa Teresa De Mose,1759 -- Appendix 6: Baptismal sponsors for the Edimboro family -- Appendix 7: Baptismal sponsors for the Quarteron children of F.X.
Sanchez and Maria Beatriz Piedra -- Appendix 8: Baptismal and marriage sponsors for the Witten family -- Appendix 9: Slave imports into Florida, 1752-63 -- Appendix 10: Slave imports into Florida by nation, 1752-63 -- Appendix 11: African imports into Spanish Florida, 1784-1821 -- Appendix 12: Free Blacks and mulattos of Fernandina and Amelia Island, 1814.
Selected plantations include: Kingsley Plantation -- San Pablo -- San Jose.
Selected maps / tables: Thomas Jefferys plan of the town and harbor of St. Augustine, 1762 -- Map of Fort Mose -- Map of Black residents of St. Augustine,1764 -- Map of Mose homesteaders -- Map of major plantations and Black homesteads during the second Spanish period, 1784-1821 -- Table 5:Characteristics of Black marriages, 1784-1821 -- Map of St. Augustine, Second Spanish Period, showing locations of Black residences and businesses -- Table 6: 1813 Census, Upper and Lower St. John River -- Table 7: Los Molinos slaves -- Table 8: Shipyard slaves -- Table 9: San Pablo slaves -- Map of Black fort settlements, villages, and Seminole villages with Black residents -- Map of Black residents of Fernandina.
Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Jane Landers’s pioneering study of people of the African diaspora under Spain’s colonial rule rewrites Florida history and enriches our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.
Summary: As Landers shows, Spanish Florida was a sanctuary to Blacks fleeing enslavement on plantations. Castilian law, meanwhile, offered many avenues out of slavery. In St. Augustine and elsewhere, society accepted European-African unions, with families developing community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparents. Assisted by Spanish traditions and ever-present geopolitical threats, people of African descent leveraged linguistic, military, diplomatic, and artisanal skills into citizenship and property rights. Landers details how Blacks became homesteaders, property owners, and entrepreneurs, and in the process enjoyed greater legal and social protection than in the two hundred years of Anglo history that followed.Collection
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African Americans -- Florida -- History - Spanish colony, 1784-1821., Slavery -- Florida -- History., African Americans -- Florida -- History.Publication Details
Author
Landers, Jane., Wood, Peter H., 1943-Publisher
University of Illinois PressPlace Published
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Urbana, Ill.Call No.
F 320 .N4 L36 1999ISBN
9780252067532 (pbk. : acid-free paper)