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Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War

by Edward E. Baptist. 392 pgs.

Contributors:

   Edward E. Baptist

Publisher:

   University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

  Chapel Hill, NC  

Publication Year:

  2002

Subjects:

Florida--History--1821-1865, Plantation Life--Florida--History--19th Century, Whites--Florida--Social Conditions--19th Century, Plantation Owners--Florida--History--19th Century, African Americans--Florida--Social Conditions--19th Century, Florida--Race Relations, 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

	Acknowledgments	xi
	INTRODUCTION. Origins and Outcomes	1
	CHAPTER ONE. The Peculiar Benefits of Florida	16
	CHAPTER TWO. Countrymen	37
	CHAPTER THREE. Forced Migration	61
	CHAPTER FOUR. Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida	88
	CHAPTER FIVE. Jack in the New Ground	120
	CHAPTER SIX. Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire: The Crisis of Middle Florida	154
	CHAPTER SEVEN. White Men Are Very Uncertain: Slavery and Frontier Society	191
	CHAPTER EIGHT. Creating an Old South	219
	CHAPTER NINE. Remaking History	247
	Conclusion	277
	Appendix	285
	Notes	295
	Bibliography	351
	Index	379

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