Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War

by Edward E. Baptist

Book Overview

Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book 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.

Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853534
• ISBN13: 9780807853535
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"