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At the center of Florida's slave trade was the colorful trader and slavery defender, Quaker Zephaniah Kingsley, owner of slaving vessels (boats). He treated his enslaved well, allowed them to save for and buy their freedom (at a 50% discount), and taught them crafts like carpentry, for which reason his highly-trained, well-behaved slaves sold ...
He does not owe and cannot owe service. He cannot even make a contract"; and that the clause giving Congress the power to "suppress Insurrections" (Article I, section 8) gives Congress the power to end slavery "[i]f it should turn out that slavery is a source of insurrection, [and] that there is no security from insurrection while slavery lasts
Every week lately, Florida seems to make more headlines for trying to turn public schools into a political war zone. The two latest examples: The Sentinel revealed the Florida Department of ...
Florida Supreme Court justices addressed the weighty issue of whether slaves had free will, and were people who could determine their own fate. Cruelty of slavery shown in this 1853 Florida high ...
Given Union dominance throughout much of Florida and Georgia by the start of 1865, Mauldin said there was a good chance that slavery had ended in that part of the state by May of that year.
[60] In pursuit of income, if not fortune, merchant and slave trader Jackson used a flatboat to get from Stones River to the Cumberland River (or from the Watauga to the Holston to the Tennessee) to the Ohio River, to the Mississippi, and thence south to the Natchez slave market in Spanish West Florida and/or the New Orleans slave market in ...
Florida's new civics curriculum doesn't merely whitewash slavery - it also ignores America's support for brutal dictatorships throughout history. History 101 in Florida: Slavery wasn't all that ...
Pages in category "History of slavery in Florida" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...