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Creating an Old South : Middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War / Edward E. Baptist

Author
Baptist, Edward E.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 392 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Origins and Outcomes -- The Peculiar Benefits of Florida -- Countrymen -- Forced Migration -- Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida -- Jack in the New Ground -- Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire: The Crisis of Middle Florida -- White Men Are Very Uncertain: Slavery and Frontier Society -- Creating an Old South -- Remaking History Conclusion.
Summary
Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this volume uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions and settlements that made the plantation South. It explores the myth of an "Old", changeless South which only papered over the struggles.
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ISBN
0807860034 (electronic bk.)
9780807860038 (electronic bk.)
080782688X (alk. paper)
9780807826881 (alk. paper)
0807853534 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807853535 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-377) and index.
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