This Miserable Pride of a Soldier: The Letters and Journals of Col. William S. Foster in the Second Seminole War
- ISBN-10
- 1879852047
- ISBN-13
- 9781879852044
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Tampa Press
- Author
- William Stanhope Foster
Description
Jackson and Brown (both history, Florida A&M U.) assemble an anthology of 37 essays, historical documents, songs, and poems about African American history in Florida since 1513. Items relate to Spanish Florida, the Antebellum era, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, the World Wars, post-war, and during the civil rights era to the present. Historians examine blacks in seventeenth-century Florida, slavery, lynching, medicine, women in education and industry, Booker T. Washington, black student consciousness, segregation, the Tallahassee bus protest, and the 2000 presidential election. Excerpts from documents by significant figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Zora Neale Hurston are included. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
