Journey Through Florida

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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.