A Southern Underground Railroad : Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country

A Southern Underground Railroad Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country

"Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period. From the beg...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pressly, Paul M., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press [2024]
Series:Early American places
Subjects:
Seminoles > Floride.
Noirs americains > Relations avec les Peuples autochtones.
Esclaves fugitifs > Floride > Histoire.
Creek Indians > Georgia.
Seminole Indians > Florida.
African Americans > Relations with Indians.
Fugitive slaves > Florida > History.
Fugitive slaves > Georgia > History.
Georgie (État) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Floride > Histoire > 1784-1821 (Colonie espagnole)
Georgia > History > 1775-1865.
Florida > History > Spanish colony, 1784-1821.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845037906719
Table of Contents:
  • Black sailors, Oglethorpe's Georgia, and Spanish Florida
  • The journeys of Mahomet
  • Hercules, revolution, and British Florida
  • Entangled borders
  • A Maroon in the postrevolutionary Southeast
  • The Florida of Don Juan McQueen
  • War captives of the Creek people
  • Flight to the Seminoles
  • Erasing a borderland
  • Conclusion: Underground Railroad.

Similar Items