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Canada and the United States

Larry Eugene Rivers. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2000. Pp. xvi, 369. $29.95.

The study of slavery in Florida offers scholars many challenges but also opportunities. No other antebellum state had a more diverse population or a more diverse landscape, and this diversity poses difficulties for historians struggling to make sense of the state's slavery experience. Many factors, conditions, and circumstances helped shape the institution of slavery in Florida. Its heritage as a Spanish colony, its frontier status, its continued engagement with the West Indies, its peculiar tradition as a haven for escaped slaves: all provided for extensive interaction among Africans, Native Americans, and Spaniards. By building on the path-breaking scholarship of Kenneth Porter and the more recent work of Jane Landers, Daniel Schafer, and Canter Brown, Jr., Larry Eugene Rivers takes into full account these important features in his excellent work on the peculiar institution in Florida. Few other scholars have been better suited to undertake this work. For more than twenty years, Rivers has combed archival collections, county courthouses, and other repositories in and outside Florida. His seminal articles have explored various aspects of slavery at the county level. . . .

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