Heaven's soldiers [electronic resource] : free people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / Frank Marotti.
Material type: TextSeries: Atlantic crossingsPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 233 pages :) illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9780817386535
- 081738653X
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Florida -- Saint John's County -- History -- 19th century
- Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Florida -- Saint John's County -- History -- 19th century
- Free African Americans -- Florida -- Saint John's County -- History -- 19th century
- Florida -- History -- 1821-1865
- Saint John's County (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century
- 306.3/620975918 23
- F317.S18 M37 2013
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.
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