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AFRICAN RELIGIOUS INTEGRATION IN FLORIDA DURING THE FIRST SPANISH PERIOD.
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Creator
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Beats, Christopher, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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This thesis is an examination of the unique conditions for African-descended slaves in St. Augustine, Florida, during the First Spanish Period. St. Augustine was an important garrison at a remote point in the Spanish Empire at the edge of a hostile frontier. As such, economics were less a priority than defense. Slaves, therefore, received different treatment here than in English colonies or even other Spanish colonies. Due to the threat of Protestantism, religious adherence was more important...
Show moreThis thesis is an examination of the unique conditions for African-descended slaves in St. Augustine, Florida, during the First Spanish Period. St. Augustine was an important garrison at a remote point in the Spanish Empire at the edge of a hostile frontier. As such, economics were less a priority than defense. Slaves, therefore, received different treatment here than in English colonies or even other Spanish colonies. Due to the threat of Protestantism, religious adherence was more important as a test of loyalty than ethnicity and slaves and freed-people were able to integrate better than in other Spanish holdings. In order to explore this integration, the meticulous records of the St. Augustine clergy are used. Infant baptism rates are used to show the influence of Spanish culture as well as at least a semblance of adherence on the part of African-descended people. The baptism of adults, meanwhile, and the role of the godparent are examined to show integration and the complex nature of this unique religious phenomenon.
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Date Issued
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2007
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Identifier
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CFE0001809, ucf:47352
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001809
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Colonization.
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Date Created
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1863
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Identifier
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DP0012741, E448.C65 1863
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012741
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The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies for the Crime; The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States,19th and 20th....
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Creator
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Sumner, Charles
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Date Created
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1856
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Identifier
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DP0012822
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Format
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Set of related objects
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012822
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Seal of North Carolina: Smoking Tobacco Marburg Bros.
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Date Created
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1840-1880
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Identifier
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DP0015390
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Set of related objects
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0015390
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Speech of Hon. Salmon P. Chase.
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Creator
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Chase, Salmon P.
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Date Created
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1855-08-21
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DP0012825
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Document (PDF)
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012825
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Speech of Hon. William A. Howard of Michigan.
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Creator
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Howard, William Alanson
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Date Created
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1858-03-23
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Identifier
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DP0012824
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012824
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Vox Populi-Vox Belli: A Historical Study of Southern Ante Bellum Public Attitudes and Motivations Toward Secession.
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Boyden, Julian, Sacher, John, Crepeau, Richard, Herlihy, Kevin, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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This thesis examines why the south seceded in 1860 as opposed to any other time in the 19th century and what changed the mentalit(&)#233; of the people in the period 1857-1860. The underlying issue in southern politics and the issue of secession was clearly slavery and slavery rested on the economics of cotton. Yet slavery and cotton do not explain why the South seceded in 1860 and not at other times in the preceding seventy years. 1807 saw the outlawing of the international slave trade and...
Show moreThis thesis examines why the south seceded in 1860 as opposed to any other time in the 19th century and what changed the mentalit(&)#233; of the people in the period 1857-1860. The underlying issue in southern politics and the issue of secession was clearly slavery and slavery rested on the economics of cotton. Yet slavery and cotton do not explain why the South seceded in 1860 and not at other times in the preceding seventy years. 1807 saw the outlawing of the international slave trade and 1819 saw Congress pass the Slave Trade Act interdicting the ships involved. In 1828 and 1832 the bitter tariff disputes between northern industrial and southern agricultural interests led to the South Carolina doctrine of (")Nullification(") but no secession. Neither the 1846 proposed Wilmot Proviso restricting slavery in the new territories nor the immediate post Mexican War disputes over the territorial expansion of slavery caused secession and in every case the South was willing to compromise.The methodology of this work is based on the assumption that words and thoughts are intimately linked and that by measuring changes in frequency of word use, changes in thought can be detected and measured. Evidence for the changing use word frequency was provided by an etymological and article content study of selected daily editions of six newspapers in the three cities. The thesis put forward to explain the change in political attitude is that for the southern cities of Richmond, Charleston and New Orleans, political power and political issues were the most important factors. The rise of the sectional northern Republican Party and fear of its abolitionist principles weighed more heavily than any other factors in altering the psychology of the South. This raised the political dispute over slavery to an issue of secession and potential military conflict.
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Date Issued
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2012
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Identifier
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CFE0004209, ucf:48999
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Document (PDF)
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004209
