Journey Through Florida

The author of the textbook is also the editor, Michael Gannon. The book, "The History of Florida”, was created by 23 historians along with Michael to tell the history of Florida. The author that helped write this section is Jerrell H. Shofner. The contributor's section of the textbook, it talks about Jerrell. He is a retired professor of history at the University of Central Florida and in 1995 became an editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly. Two things that were in desperate need of reconstruction were the economy and the government in Florida. "There was no government. After Governor John Milton killed himself, Union General Edward McCook had suppressed efforts to reorganize a civil government."(1). "there was no economy. Money and credit had disappeared with the fall of the Confederacy. The means of production had ended with the abolition of slavery.”(2). "It was planting time, and while the new president pondered the situation, something had ...

The location of Fort Mose Historic State Park is in St. Augustine. My brother, Michael, and I went on March 23rd of 2023. We arrived at the park at Noon and left at 1pm. We spent an hour walking around the park. My brother and I walked down the Walkway to Freedom, and we enjoyed the swamp water full of tadpoles. My brother couldn’t believe that the wetlands we were seeing were not there when the fort was active, it was farming ground. As we were walking around we read every sign that was up talking about the history of Fort Mose. I can and can't imagine what it was like when it was an active fort. Seeing some of the photos of what it was like back then is amazing and brings it to life, but it's hard to imagine a life you never experienced. This fort was mentioned in chapter 10 of our reading. "The invaders took the town and port of Fernandina on Amelia Island, and by mid-April they were encamped at the site of Fort Mose, two miles north of St. Augustine, when Presid...

The author is also the editor, Michael Gannon. The book, "The History of Florida”, was created by 23 historians along with Michael to tell the history of Florida. The authors that helped write this section are Susan Richbourg Parker and William S. Cooker. There is no issue of "perspective" in regard to the Anglo writings of the Spanish Government. The Anglos have a different belief than the Spanish Government. "David J. Weber observed that Englishmen and Anglo-Americans writing at the time of the Second Spanish Period "uniformly condemned Spanish rule." They saw only Spanish misgovernment, which "seemed the inevitable result of the defective character of Spaniards themselves.” more recent attention to Spanish-language documents questions that negative assessment.”(1). "These former British subjects joined Spanish soldiers and returning families, their slaves, free blacks, white and black immigrants from the United States, refugees of both races ...

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The Spanish goal was to persuade the native people to accept Catholicism. That way the natives could have allegiance to the king of Spain. However, there was a royal contract that was given to Florida's founder, Menéndez de Avilés, which included the. obligation to bring clergymen to instruct the native people in the faith of Christianity. Florida had what we call the mission era. It started in 1567 and ended in 1705. The mission era lasted 138 years. The system in which the king allowed certain colonists to recruit natives for forced labor, which would be 45 days out of the year, was called repartimiento. There were about 11 Indian people in about 80 mission centers. The oldest mission in Florida was Mission Nombre de Dios. It was located in St. Augustine. The mission was to bring the Christian faith to the native people. St. Augustine has turned the mission center into a museum, but sadly it is permanently closed. There was a British colony that was a threat to the missions, it w...

The author is also the editor, Michael Gannon. The book, "The History of Florida”, was created by 23 historians along with Michael to tell the history of Florida. One argument that is presented is that historic accounts are not always cut and dry. For example, "…although the one extant detailed source for Juan Ponce’s voyage of 1513 -historian Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, who in 1601-15 published a chronicle of Spanish New World explorations - states that on the return end of that voyage, Juan Ponce sent one of his ships into the Lu-cayan, or Bahama, chain to search for "that celebrated fountain which the Indians said turned men from old men [into] youths.” This probably was a gloss by Herrera based on an unsubstantiated account by Peter Martyr. Probably more important to Juan Ponce were gold and the glory of conquest, the lust for which drove all conquistadors of the period."(1). Basically, Ponce went on a voyage, that was thought to be for a legend tol...

  Hello everyone. My name is Madelyn Myers. I love all things dark, strange, and mysterious. I listen to the podcast Dark History. I love to listen to true crime stories while I color, draw, crochet, or do diamond paintings. I was able to be close to one of my favorite band’s lead singer at a concert. I have a black named Binx.  Enjoy the journey while I learn the history of Florida and share it with you.