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Perspectives from present-day historians – research into census data, court documents, crop sales, property ownership, labor practices, banking records, family papers, church registers, oral histories, cookbooks, music collections, and dance manuals that provides a nuanced view of social life among Tallahassee’s planters, merchants, Crackers, Free Blacks, enslaved Blacks, and Native Americans.
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
Bowers, Shirley H. (1992) ""Captured on Canvas": McKenney-Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 71: No. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss3/7
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Reproduced by permission of the Florida Historical Society
Denham, James M. “Cracker Women and Their Families in Nineteenth-Century Florida,” pp. 15-27 (with notes on pp. 185-188), Florida’s Heritage of Diversity: Essays in Honor of Samuel Proctor. Tallahassee, Sentry Press, 1997.
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Reproduced by permission of the Sentry Press, Tallahassee
Groene, Bertram H. Ante-Bellum Tallahassee. Tallahassee, Florida Heritage Foundation, 1981.
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Reproduced by permission of the Tallahassee Historical Society
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PDF (Chapter 4, Chapter 13, Chapter 14)
Groene, Bertram H. “Lizzie Brown’s Tallahassee,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 48.2, 1969, pp.
155-75.
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Reproduced by permission of the Florida Historical Society
Hanna, A. J. A Prince in Their Midst: The Adventurous Life of Achille Murat on the American Frontier. University of Oklahoma Press, 1946.
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Used with permission of University of Oklahoma Press, from Prince in Their Midst: The Adventurous Life of Achille Murat on the American Frontier, Hanna, Alfred Jackson, 01/01/1946; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Johnson, Malcolm B. Red, White, and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida. Tallahassee, Rotary
Clubs of Tallahassee, 1976.
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Reproduced by permission of the Tallahassee Historical Society
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PDF (Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 15)
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