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Explores 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.

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Convening 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

Black Hibiscus African Americans and the Florida

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      Publisher: MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi
      Publication Date: 1/15/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781496848598, 978-1496848598
      ISBN10: 1496848594
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      Book Synopsis
      Explores 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 Review
      Convening 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

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