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Contents Introduction 1 1. Looking Backward and Forward 13 2. The 1820s: Anxious Optimism 26 3. The 1830s: Manumission, Property, and Family 46 4. The Second Seminole War 61 5. Restricted Manumission, Migrations, and Antimiscegenation 77 6. Preserving Spanish Days: Marriage and Manumission 99 7. The Black Martial Heritage 114 8. Land, Paternalism, and Laws 129 Notes 153 Bibliography 197 Index 211 Photographs follow page 93 ...

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