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Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860
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Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860

by Julia Floyd Smith. 249 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Julia Floyd Smith

Publisher:

   University of Florida Press

Place of Publication:

  Gainesville, FL  

Publication Year:

  1973
Subjects:   Slavery--Florida, Plantation Life--Florida
Table of contents
Contents
1. Slave Plantations of the New World 1
2. A New Frontier 9
3. Slave Trading 28
4. Slave Labor 53
5. "To Render Slaves Profitable " 78
6. Slavery and the Law 101
7. Slaveholders and Plantation Growth 122
8. Cotton, the Factor, and Plantation Supply 153
9. An Appraisal 171
Appendixes 195
Bibliography 229
Index 241
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Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860
Book by Julia Floyd Smith; University of Florida Press, 1973
Subjects: Plantation Life--Florida, Slavery--Florida
...Smith Julia Floyd, 1914- Slavery and plantation growth in Florida, 1821-1860. Bibliography: p. 1. Slavery in the United States -- Florida. 2. Plantation life -- Florida. I. Title. E445.F6S65 917.5903 70-150656 ISBN 0-8130-0323-7 COPYRIGHT...
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Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Book by Edward E. Baptist; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: African Americans--Florida--Social Conditions--19th Century, Florida--History--1821-1865, Florida--Race Relations, Frontier And Pioneer Life--Florida, Land Settlement--Social Aspects--Florida--History--19th Century, Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th Century, Plantation Life--Florida--History--19th Century, Plantation Owners--Florida--History--19th Century, Social Classes--Florida--History--19th Century, Whites--Florida--Social Conditions--19th Century
...Empire: The Crisis of Middle Florida 154 CHAPTER SEVEN...White Men Are Very Uncertain: Slavery and Frontier Society 191...no stability for them while slavery lasted. Still, enslaved African...the borders of one group of Florida counties. In politics, settlers...
3.
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
Book by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips; Peter Smith, 1959
Subjects: Plantation Life, Slave Labor, Slavery--United States, Southern States--Economic Conditions
...SLAVERY AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY A SURVEY OF THE SUPPLY...XVI. PLANTATION LIFE 309...when he visited his own plantation in 1815-1817, near the end of his life, found as much novelty in...
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
Book by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips; D. Appleton, 1918
Subjects: Plantation Life, Slave Labor, Slavery--United States, Southern States--Economic Conditions
...SLAVERY AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY A SURVEY OF THE SUPPLY...XVI. PLANTATION LIFE 309...when he visited his own plantation in 1815-1817, near the end of his life, found as much novelty in...
5.
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Book by John Michael Vlach; University of North Carolina Press, 1993
Subjects: Plantation Life--Southern States--History--19th Century, Slaves--Southern States--Social Conditions, Southern States--Social Conditions, Space (Architecture)--Southern States--History--19th Century, Vernacular Architecture--Southern States--History--19th Century
...the Chesapeake Bay to northern Florida and not more than a hundred miles...noteworthy plantation zones in the Florida Panhandle, northwestern Alabama...glass on the plantation. 26 Plantation life, particularly in the western portion...
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Journal article by Kirsten E. Wood; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...their friends, and their clients form a free black community in Floridas Duval County before the Civil War. Last but not least, the...drama will make it a useful text in undergraduate courses on slavery, the South, and womens history, where its strengths and weaknesses...
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An Angel in the Plantation: The Economics of Slavery and the Politics of Literary Domesticity in Caroline Lee Hentz's 'The Planter's Northern Bride.'
Journal article by Carme Manuel Cuenca; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1997
Subjects: Hentz, Caroline Lee--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plantation life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slavery and slaves in literature--History
...Antebellum Writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on Slavery (New York: Capricorn Books, 1960), p. 59. (13) Hentz will...Southern Belle in the American Novel (Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1985), p. 3. (15) According to John C. Rouff ("Frivolity...
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Madison County, Florida - 1830 to 1860: A Case Study in Land, Labor, and Prosperity
Journal article by Larry Eugene Rivers; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 78, 1993
Subjects: Black race--History, Madison County, Florida--History, Slavery--Case studies
...see also Smith, Slavery and Plantation Growth...Shipping and Seamen at Floridas Premier Cotton Port...207-31; Smith, Slavery and Plantation Growth...Plantation Life in Middle Florida; 1821-1845" (Masters...Eighth Original Florida Census Slave Population...war. 21 Smith, Slavery and Plantation Growth...
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Nathalie Dessens. Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies
Journal article by Kaavonia Hinton; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (Book)--Book reviews
...the American South and the West Indies. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 213 pp. $55.00. Happy darkies, southern belles, Samboes...of southern mythmaking in Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. As the books title...
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Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies
Journal article by Tony Martin; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Nathalie Dessens, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (Book)--Book reviews
...by Tony Martin Nathalie Dessens, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. 223. Cloth $55.00. This work grew out of the authors doctoral dissertation...
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How the Gop Gamed the System in Florida
Magazine article by John Lantigua; The Nation, Vol. 272, April 30, 2001
Subjects: Bush, Jeb--Investigations, Election fraud--Ethical aspects, Elections--Ethical aspects, Florida, Race discrimination--Political aspects, Race relations, Republican Party--Investigations
...to vote your sic messing with their life," she said in an e-mail. And complaints...lists contained thousands of names of Florida citizens who had never been convicted...supervisor for Madison County in north Florida. "The best and fastest way to check...information, and they messed with my life." Madison County Supervisor Howell agreed...officials. "That could destroy a persons life." It is impossible to know how many...foiled by clogged phone lines in many of Floridas sixty-seven counties. Supervisors in...
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Bushism in One Florida
Magazine article by Cristopher Rapp; National Review, Vol. 52, March 6, 2000
Subjects: Affirmative action--Laws, regulations and rules, Bush, Jeb--Political activity, Florida--Politics and government, Governors--Political activity, Hill, Tony--Political activity, Meek, Kendrick B.--Political activity
...the National Organization for Women who spoke at a town-hall meeting in Tampa. After saying that One Florida reminded her of "the days of slavery," she went even further, demanding of the governor, "Get your feet off of my neck! Get your feet off...
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Black Mark: The NAACP Discredits Itself in Florida
Magazine article by John J. Miller; National Review, Vol. 52, December 31, 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Political activity, Civil rights--Political aspects, Florida--Politics and government, NAACP--Political activity, Voting--Investigations
...Voices Laura Conaway and James Ridgeway blamed Gores defeat in Florida on "a centuries-old national system of labor, education, and...keep African Americans from rising above the legacy of chattel slavery." In the same article, however, they also identified a fundamental...
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It's a Start: Apologies for Slavery Must Be Followed by Steps to Justice
Magazine article by Donald W. Shriver Jr.; Sojourners Magazine, Vol. 37, June 2008
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Social aspects, African Americans--Civil rights, Slavery reparations, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Social aspects
...Southern--Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. The sixth was New Jersey. Why have these apologies come so...confess that their predecessors put the seal of legality on slavery. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED But an apology is only one element of...
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Fleeing Death, Seeking Life
Magazine article by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger; American Visions, Vol. 14, August 1999
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Franklin, John Hope--Interviews, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (Book)--Authorship, Schweninger, Loren--Interviews
...Franklin mentioned, on the plantation with an owner or an overseer...Mississippi and Louisiana and Florida, in South Carolina and...situation existed in central Florida at about the same time...should Kill him. In Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas...
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Secluded Splendor on Route 1; Plantation and Pope-Leighey House
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 9, 2006
...of the Pope-Leighey House has a ceiling more than 11 feet high, built-in bookshevles and a wall of glass doors that open to a screened porch. The house was made with Tidewater red cypress from Florida. Photo by Bert V. Goulait/The Washington Times
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Holiday World: Keys to Paradise; ALISON STOKES Took a Road Trip through the Florida Keys to Key West
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 22, 2007
...to Paradise; ALISON STOKES Took a Road Trip through the Florida Keys to Key West. Byline: ALISON STOKES A DRIVE through...minimum three nights stay). For more information on the Florida Keys visit www.flakeys.co.uk SOLITUDE: A private beach...
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Slavery, Not States' Rights, Inspired Secession
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 23, 2003
...was his opposition to the extension of slavery to the Western territories. Was slavery, then, the issue that prompted secession by South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas? South Carolina went first. Its Dec...
4.
Somber Ceremony Marks Slavery S End
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 22, 2003
...United States deals openly and honestly with the history of slavery, only then can we move as a country towards true racial reconciliation...life, said Lori Lieto, 36. Ms. Lieto was on her way from Florida back home to Brewster, N.Y., but decided to stop in the District...
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Women Tell Senators Horrors of Sex Slavery
Newspaper article by John Godfrey; The Washington Times, April 5, 2000
...Senate committee. "We are talking about slavery," said William R. Yeomans, chief of staff...from Veracruz, Mexico, was brought to Florida, shuttled around trailer-home brothels...said. They were released only after the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center intervened...
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Florida , State, United States
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FLORIDA , state, United States flor id , flor , state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and Alabama (N). Facts and Figures Area...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...kingdom. The accession of Florida (1819) further swelled the...temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in new states, but under...retracted the winner of Florida twice, first projecting...The issue of who would win Florida and its electoral votes...
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South, The
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...war were fought in the South, and by the end of the war, with slavery abolished and most of the area in ruins, the Old South had...Sun Belt have experienced dramatic growth since the 1970s. Floridas population almost doubled between 1970 and 1990 and Georgia...
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Calhoun, John Caldwell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...before Calhoun had privately denounced Jacksons conduct in Florida while publicly giving the impression that he had supported...stronger in the North, Calhoun became an outspoken apologist for slavery and made every effort to maintain the delicate balance between...
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Bahamas, The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the Atlantic Ocean, consisting of some 700 islands and islets and about 2,400 cays, beginning c.50 mi (80 km) off SE Florida and extending c.600 mi (970 km) SE almost to Haiti. The country does not include the Turks and Caicos Islands , to the...
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