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Book Review

Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. By Larry Eugene Rivers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xvi, 369 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-1813-7.)

In 1973 Julia Floyd Smith published a study of slavery in Florida from 1821 to 1860 that dealt primarily with the issues deemed critical in studies of the South's peculiar institution at that time: the rise of plantations and the extent to which planters were capitalist or noncapitalist. Larry Eugene Rivers's new book does not supplant Smith's work; rather, it offers a broader account both chronologically and topically. He begins with a chapter on blacks in Spanish Florida and concludes with one on slavery in the state during the Civil War. In the intervening chapters, he concentrates on the lives of the slaves and emphasizes interactions between whites and blacks and between blacks and Indians. . . .

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