Black Society in Spanish Florida

Black Society in Spanish Florida
Title Black Society in Spanish Florida PDF eBook
Author Jane Landers
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 420
Release 1999
Genre African Americans
ISBN 9780252067532

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The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.

Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Title Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions PDF eBook
Author Jane Landers
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 353
Release 2010-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 0674035917

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In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
Title Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley PDF eBook
Author Daniel L. Schafer
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 224
Release 2018-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 0813063531

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Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, and eventually a central figure in a free black community. Anna Kingsley’s story adds a dramatic chapter to the history of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
Title Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida PDF eBook
Author Jane G. Landers
Publisher
Pages 220
Release 2000
Genre History
ISBN 9780813017723

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This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. The essays trace the relationship of Florida to the Caribbean and Atlantic economies.

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Title Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives PDF eBook
Author Jane Landers
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 332
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9780826323972

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A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas
Title Black Seminoles in the Bahamas PDF eBook
Author Rosalyn Howard
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 142
Release 2023-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 081307309X

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"An excellent case study of a little-studied and poorly known community experiencing the processes of identity formation and culture change."--Brent R. Weisman, University of South Florida This is the first full-length ethnography of a unique community within the African diaspora. Rosalyn Howard traces the history of the isolated "Red Bays" community of the Bahamas, from their escape from the plantations of the American South through their utilization of social memory in the construction of new identity and community. Some of the many African slaves escaping from southern plantations traveled to Florida and joined the Seminole Indians, intermarried, and came to call themselves Black Seminoles. In 1821, pursued and harassed by European Americans through the First Seminole War, approximately 200 members of this group fled to Andros Island, where they remained essentially isolated for nearly 150 years. Drawing on archival and secondary sources in the United States and the Bahamas as well as interviews with members of the present-day Black Seminole community on Andros Island, Howard reconstructs the story of the Red Bays people. She chronicles their struggles as they adapt to a new environment and forge a new identity in this insular community and analyzes the former slaves' relationship with their Native American companions. Black Seminoles in contemporary Red Bays number approximately 290, the majority of whom are descended directly from the original settlers. As part of her research, Howard lived for a year in this small community, recording its oral history and analyzing the ways in which that history informed the evolving identity of the people. Her treatment dispels the air of mystery surrounding the Black Seminoles of Andros and provides a foundation for further anthropological and historical investigations.

Fort Mose

Fort Mose
Title Fort Mose PDF eBook
Author Kathleen A. Deagan
Publisher
Pages 53
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9780813013527

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In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black experience as simply that of slavery, offering instead a rich and balanced view of the African-American experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.