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Creating and Old South |
Object Name |
Book |
Summary |
Book about southern plantations in antebellum Florida. Summary on back of the book reads: "Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two countries in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern stated began settling the landthat became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from the woods of Middle Florida, while planters and less wealthy white men battled over the social, political, and econimic institutions of their new society. Conflict between white men became full-scale crisis in the 1840s, but when sectional conflict seemed to threaten slavery, the whites of Middle Florida found common ground. In politics and everyday encounters, they enshrined the ideal of white male equality--and black inequality. To mask their mainful memories of crisis, the planter elitetold themselves that their society had been transplanted from older states sithout conflict. But this myth of an "Old," changeless South only papered over the fact, that myth continues to shroud from our view the plantation frontier, the very engine of conflict that had led to the myth's creation." |
Object ID |
2023.091.002 |
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FLA BAP |
Author |
Edward E. Baptist |
Published Date |
2002 |
Published Place |
Chapel Hill and London |
Publisher |
The University of North Carolina Press |
Subjects |
Florida History Plantations Social Classes Froniers Pioneers Land Settlement Migration African Americans Race Relations |
Search Terms |
Florida History Plantations Social Classes Froniers Pioneers Land Settlement Migration African Americans Race Relations |
People |
Baptist, Edward E. |
Collection |
AIMH |