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Book SynopsisExplores Florida's colonial past, focusing particularly on interactions between maroons who escaped enslavement, and on Albery Whitman's The Rape of Florida, which also links Black people and Native Americans. Contributors consider film, folklore, and music, and key Black writers.
Trade ReviewConvening a range of scholars of Florida’s African American literary and cultural history,
Black Hibiscus offers a unique engagement with contemporary scholarship marked by clarity of vision and conceptual verve." - Keith Cartwright, professor of English at University of North Florida
"Through interviews, first-person accounts, and traditional academic essays,
Black Hibiscus disrupts typical racial and cultural narratives about Florida and shows the centrality of the Black experience to the state." - Julie Buckner Armstrong, author of
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
