Creating an Old South

by Baptist, Edward E.

• ISBN13: 9780807826881
• ISBN10: 080782688X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Baptist examines the development of a plantation society in antebellum middle Florida and its effects on codes of masculinity among white settlers and planters, African American family structures and culture, and the formation of a sectional identity in the South.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Origins and Outcomes	p. 1
The Peculiar Benefits of Florida	p. 16
Countrymen	p. 37
Forced Migration	p. 61
Hot-Blooded Fellows and the Flush Times of Middle Florida	p. 88
Jack in the New Ground	p. 120
Decline and Fall of the Rag Empire the Crisis of Middle Florida	p. 154
White Men Are Very Uncertain Slavery and Frontier Society	p. 191
Creating an Old South	p. 219
Remaking History	p. 247
Conclusion	p. 277
Appendix	p. 285
Notes	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 379
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