Florida’s Heritage of Diversity; Essays in Honor of Samuel Proctor

The essays begin with a discussion of “Marriage and Community Construction in St. Augustine, 1784-1804,” and end with “The Latinization fo Florida” between those eras theyexplore a wide range of Florida “cracker” women in the nineteenth century, black troops during the Civil War, a black Baptist minister during Reconstruction and beyond, a Jewish mayor of Tampa, black Republicans and the Knights of Labor, the Seminole Indians, a Jacksonville nun, mob violence, a Congresswoman, and World War II.