Heaven's Soldiers: Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida

by Frank Marotti

Heaven's Soldiers 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817317848
• ISBN13: 9780817317843
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"