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Heaven's soldiers

Marotti, Frank, 1954-

Heaven's soldiers free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / [electronic resource] : Frank Marotti. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 233 pages :) illustrations, maps ; - Atlantic crossings .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

Looking backward and forward -- The 1820s : anxious optimism -- The 1830s : manumission, property, and family -- The Second Seminole War -- Restricted manumission, migrations, and antimiscegenation -- Preserving Spanish days : marriage and manumission -- The Black martial heritage -- Land, paternalism, and laws.

9780817386535 081738653X


Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
Slaves--Emancipation--History--Florida--Saint John's County--19th century.
Free African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--Florida--Saint John's County--19th century.
Free African Americans--History--Florida--Saint John's County--19th century


Florida--History--1821-1865.
Saint John's County (Fla.)--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

F317.S18 / M37 2013

306.3/620975918