Creating an Old South
Subtitle: Middle Florida's plantation frontier before the Civil War
By: Edward E. Baptist.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Plantation life -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.; Whites -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Plantation owners -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Social classes -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida.; Land settlement -- Social aspects -- Florida -- History -- 19th century.; Florida -- History -- 1821-1865.; Florida -- Race relations.; Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.