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Notes I have standardized the spellings of surnames in the text, but in the notes I have left them as they appear in the sources cited. INTRODUCTION 1. Jane Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 24, 291n93. 2. Ibid., 14–15, 23–25. 3. Ibid., 28–30, 34–39, 45–49, 56–62; Jane G. Landers, “Francisco Xavier Sanchez, Floridano Planter and Merchant,” in Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida, ed. Jane G. Landers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), 85–86. 4. Landers, Black Society, 76–79; James G. Cusick, The OtherWar of 1812:The PatriotWar and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003), 149, 179–80, 210; Patricia C. Griffin, “The Spanish Return: The People-Mix Period 1784–1821,” in The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival, ed. Jean Parker Waterbury (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983), 131–33, 148. 5. Landers, Black Society, 32, 107. 6. Colored Baptisms, Colored Marriages, Cathedral Parish Records, St. Augustine, Florida, St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library. 7. Thomas E. Will, “Weddings on Contested Grounds: Slave Marriage in the Antebellum South,” The Historian 62 (Fall 1999): 99–117. 8. Michael V. Gannon, The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513– 1870 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965), 152. 9. Will, “Weddings on Contested Grounds,” 102–3. 10. Herman L. Bennett, “Genealogies to a Past: Africa, Ethnicity, and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Mexico,” in New Studies in the History of American Slavery, ed. Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 129. 166 / Notes to Pages 4–8 11. Mark M. Smith, “Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion ,” Journal of Southern History 67 (August 2001): 513–34. 12. Bennett, “Genealogies to a Past,” 130, 138–43; Virginia Gould, “In Full Enjoyment of Their Liberty:The Free Women of Color of the Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola , 1769–1860” (PhD diss., Emory University, 1989), 268–72. 13. Clive Parry, ed., The Consolidated Treaty Series (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1969), 70: 11; Herbert Bruce Fuller, The Purchase of Florida: Its History and Diplomacy (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1906), 373–74; Landers, Black Society, 183; Daniel L. Schafer, “‘A Class of People Neither Freemen Nor Slaves’: From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821–1861,” Journal of Social History 26 (Spring 1993): 152; Canter Brown Jr., “Race Relations in Territorial Florida, 1821–1845,” Florida Historical Quarterly 73 (January 1995): 304. 14. Cusick, The OtherWar of 1812, 4–11, 104–7, 169, 183, 185–86, 195, 209, 214–15, 265–66, 298; John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 17–18; Michael Gannon, Florida: A Short History (Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1993), 27–28; Jane G. Landers, introduction to Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida, 1–10. 15. Cusick, The Other War of 1812, 4, 7–9, 15, 216–23, 231–35, 265–69, 292. 16. Parry, The Consolidated Treaty Series, 70: 11; Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America . . . (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846), 3: 768, 6: 569; Rembert W. Patrick, Florida Fiasco: Rampant Rebels on the Georgia-Florida Border, 1810–1815 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1954), 302. 17. Settled MiscellaneousTreasury Accounts, September 6, 1790–September 29, 1894, Of- fice of the First Auditor, Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury , Record Group 217, National Archives, College Park, Maryland. 18. Sherry Johnson, “The St. Augustine Hurricane of 1811: Disaster and the Question of Political Unrest on the Florida Frontier,” Florida Historical Quarterly 84 (Summer 2005): 28–56. 19. Gregg D. Kimball, “African, American, and Virginian:The Shaping of Black Memory in Antebellum Virginia, 1790–1860,” in Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity, ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 57–77. 20. Larry Eugene Rivers, Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000), 13. 21. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 291–92; Rivers, Slavery in Florida, 201–3. 22. Rivers, Slavery in Florida, 192, 224; Landers, Black Society, 229–35; Rosalyn Howard, Black Seminoles in the Bahamas (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), 31–32, 44–48. 23. Frank Marotti Jr., “Negotiating Freedom in St...

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