Slavery in Florida Territorial Days to Emancipation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
Rivers also provides a dramatic account of the hundreds of armed free blacks and runaways among the Seminole, Creek, and Mikasuki Indians on the peninsula, whose presence created tensions leading to the Second Seminole War (1835-42).
Slavery in Florida is built upon painstaking research into virtually every source available on the subject -- a wealth of historic documents, personal papers, slave testimonies, and census and newspaper reports. This serious critical work strikes a balance between the factual and the interpretive. It will be significant to all readers interested in slavery, the Civil War, the African American experience, and Florida and southern U.S. history, and it could serve as a comprehensive resource for secondary school teachers and students.