Historians' Lectures

Research from 21st century scholars who have served as consultants for this booklet – Drs. Larry E. Rivers, Jane Landers, and Tracy J. Revels, whose studies of Black history, Cracker lives, and women’s presence are reshaping how scholars understand Florida’s Territorial period.

Invitation to Explore

This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and the State of Florida.

Sources about Social Life in Territorial Tallahassee 1824-1845

Lectures delivered at Mission San Luis in Tallahassee on March 21-22, 2024, as part of The Bicentennial Historian's Symposium: A Commemoration of the Founding of Tallahassee

Revels, Tracy J. “In Nearly Equal Measure’: Women in Early Tallahassee and Middle Florida, 1823-1860.”

Landers, Jane. “Fernando Ortega, Antonio Proctor, and Negro Abraham: Atlantic Creoles and Their Multi-racial Military Networks across Florida.”

Rivers, Larry E. “African Americans and the Early Development of Tallahassee.” Faculty Bookwatch - The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ccs7F--6w