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001			ocn841171735
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005			20240726105407.0
008			121115s2013 aluac ob 001 0 eng d
010			_z2012042395
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020			_a9780817386535 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aF317 _b.H438 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMarotti, Frank, _d1954- _e1
245	1	0	_aHeaven's soldiers : _bfree people of color and the Spanish legacy in antebellum Florida / _cFrank Marotti.
260			_aTuscaloosa : _bUniversity of Alabama Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : _billustrations, portraits
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aAtlantic crossings
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aLooking backward and forward -- _tThe 1820s : anxious optimism -- _tThe 1830s : manumission, property, and family -- _tThe Second Seminole War -- _tRestricted manumission, migrations, and antimiscegenation -- _tPreserving Spanish days : marriage and manumission -- _tThe Black martial heritage -- _tLand, paternalism, and laws.
520	0		_aThis book chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations in pre-Civil War East Florida to the area's Spanish heritage. While acknowledging the importance of that heritage, this book gives more than the usual emphasis to the role of African American agency in exploiting the limited opportunities that such a heritage permitted. Spanish rule presented institutions and customs that talented, ambitious, and fortunate individuals might, and did, exploit. Although racial prejudice was never absent, persons of color aspired to lives of dignity, security, and prosperity. This book's subjects are the free people of African descent in the broad sense of the term "free" - that is, not just those who were legally free, but all those who resisted the constraints of legal bondage and otherwise asserted varying degrees of control over themselves and their circumstances. Collectively, this population was indispensable to the evolution of the existing social order. In this book, the author studies four pillars of Black liberty that emerged during Spain's rule and continued through the United States' acquisition of Florida in 1821: family ties to the white community, manumission, military service, and land ownership. The slaveowning culture of the United States eroded a number of these pillars, though Black freedom and agency abided in ways unparalleled anywhere else in the pre-Civil War United States. Indeed, a strong Black martial tradition arguably helped to topple Florida's slave-holding regime, leading up to the start of the Civil War.
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650		0	_aFree African Americans _zFlorida _zSaint Johns County _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aFree African Americans _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zFlorida _zSaint Johns County _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xEmancipation _zFlorida _zSaint Johns County _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aSeminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=585088&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hF. _m2013 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c98919 _d98919
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell