(EBOOK)-Finding Florida

Over its long history Florida has been many things an Edenic realm protected by geography a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors a place to start over and gods waiting room With a native population as high as 900000 who all died it became a pestilential backwater but today is our fourth most populous state The site of vicious racial violence including massacres genocide slavery and the terrorist campaigns that undid Reconstruction Florida is now one of our most diverse states a dynamic multicultural place with an essential role in 21st century AmericaFrom the very first however the remarkable story of Florida has been distorted and whitewashed In Finding Florida TD Allman reclaims this remarkable history from the mythologizers apologists and boosters He shows Florida as it was and is tracing its history through the preColumbian era and under Spanish French and British rule He describes the 19th century American maneuvers to take this territory it coveted the importation of slavery following Andrew Jacksons military campaigns and the terrible violence of the Seminole Wars Florida became a state in 1845 sixteen years later it would secedeIn Florida Allman writers two Civil Wars unfolded First was the actual war then came the imaginary one where brutality and ruin were transformed into a selfless struggle to defend a noble cause that never existed In the late 19th and 20th centuries Florida was sold as paradise with tourism replacing slavery as the dominant activity Palm Beach Key West Miami Tampa and Orlando boomed fortunes were won and lost land was stolen and flipped and millions arrivedThe product of a decade of research and writing Finding Florida is a highly original stylish and masterful work the first modern history of this important place

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