Marriage Records, 1823-1880 St. Johns County, Florida
Title | Marriage Records, 1823-1880 St. Johns County, Florida PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Marriage records |
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Marriage Records, 1840-1858 from Marriage Book A, St. Johns County, Florida
Title | Marriage Records, 1840-1858 from Marriage Book A, St. Johns County, Florida PDF eBook |
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Pages | 100 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Marriage records |
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The Cana Sanctuary
Title | The Cana Sanctuary PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Marotti |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817317473 |
Uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in the path of an expanding American empire In the late seventeenth century a group of about a dozen escaped African slaves from the English colony of Carolina reached the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. In a diplomatic bid for sanctuary, to avoid extradition and punishment, they requested the sacrament of Catholic baptism from the Spanish Catholic Church. Their negotiations brought about their baptism and with it their liberation. The Cana Sanctuary focuses on what author Frank Marotti terms “folk diplomacy”—political actions conducted by marginalized, non-state sectors of society—in this instance by formerly enslaved African Americans in antebellum East Florida. The book explores the unexpected transformations that occurred in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century St. Augustine as more and more ex-slaves arrived to find their previously disregarded civil rights upheld under sacred codes by an international, nongovernmental, authoritative organization. With the Catholic Church acting as an equalizing, empowering force for escaped African slaves, the Spanish religious sanctuary policy became part of popular historical consciousness in East Florida. As such, it allowed for continual confrontations between the law of the Church and the law of the South. Tensions like these survived, ultimately lending themselves to an “Afro-Catholicism” sentiment that offered support for antislavery arguments.
Index to Marriages III, 1836-1882
Title | Index to Marriages III, 1836-1882 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 81 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Marriage records |
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Catholic Marriage Records Copied from the St. Augustine Historical Society Library, St. Augustine, Florida
Title | Catholic Marriage Records Copied from the St. Augustine Historical Society Library, St. Augustine, Florida PDF eBook |
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Release | 1991 |
Genre | Church records and registers |
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A Third Rutan Family Index
Title | A Third Rutan Family Index PDF eBook |
Author | James J. Keegan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Reference |
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"At least half of the individuals in this volume did not appear in the earlier versions and those mentioned in the earlier versions appear here only if new information on them has come to light."--back cover.
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 |
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.