Creating an Old South

Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War

• Author(s): Edward E. Baptist,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 392
• ISBN_10: 0807853534
  ISBN_13: 9780807853535
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies , History / United States / State & Local / General , History / United States / 19th Century ,

Description:... 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.

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