SLAVERY & PLANTATIONS

OVERVIEWS

CELIA (Slave woman who was executed)

MISCELLANEOUS INFO ABOUT SLAVERY

ST. AUGUSTINE

MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION

OVERVIEWS

• OVERVIEW OF FLORIDA SLAVERY -- An summary of Florida history, from the Florida Heritage Collection.  Includes info about slavery.

• DETAILED OUTLINE OF FLORIDA HISTORY -- "The Floridians: A Social History of Florida." Includes info about slavery.

• FLORIDA SLAVE HISTORY -- Florida Times-Union article called "Uneasy Beginnings in Florida," by Sharon Weightman.  

• SLAVERY'S IMPACT ON FLORIDA -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Built on Slavery: Africans Played a Far Greater Role in Florida's History than Hollywood's Viewpoint Suggests," by Nicole Johnson McGill. 

• FLORIDA SLAVERY -- Listen to an audio report entitled "Larry Rivers: Slavery in Florida."  Tells about Florida slavery.  Provided by the Florida Humanities Council.  NOTE: When you get to the webpage, click on the heading "Last Month's Programs."  Keep clicking this heading until you get to the page that contains the audio report you want. 

• SLAVERY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "The Scars of Slavery," by Alliniece T. Andino.   Tells about the lives of slaves in Northeast Florida.

• SLAVERY IN FLORIDA -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Professor discusses state's black history," by Amelia A. Hart.  Info about slavery in Florida is given.

• FLORIDA HERITAGE COLLECTION -- Info about the subjects on this webpage may be available at the the marvelous "Florida Heritage Collection." This website gives full-text, online copies of hundreds of Florida books.  NOTE: When you get to the website, you can search in different ways.  These searches include by "Florida Themes" or by "Florida History Timeline."  You can also search by "Florida County" and by "Keywords."  With keyword searching, just type in "Jacksonville," "Duval County," or other keywords, such as words from a title.  ALSO NOTE:  Many of the individual Jacksonville items in the Florida Heritage Collection are listed in JacksonvilleStory.com, the site you're now in. However, Jacksonville info can often be found in books about Florida in general. Many of theses books are at the Florida Heritage Collection website.

CELIA

• CELIA -- Lots of info about Celia's fate and her family's fate.  Celia, a slave, was the first female known to be executed in Florida.  Info is provided by JacksonvilleStory.com.  Info links are located in the Jax Curiosity Shop section of this website.  BACKGROUND INFO:  Celia was hung in Jacksonville in 1848 for killing Jacob Bryan, her owner.  Jacob was Celia's father and was probably also the father of Celia's own children.

• CELIA -- Associated Press article entitled "Wuornos scheduled to become third woman executed," by Ron Word.  Includes info about Celia, the first female known to be executed in Florida.  BACKGROUND INFO:  Celia was hung in Jacksonville in 1848 for killing her owner, Jacob Bryan.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO

• KINGSLEY HERITAGE EVENT -- Here's an announcement for a most interesting event.  In October 2003, Kingsley Plantation is sponsoring the sixth annual "Kingsley Heritage Celebration: Paths to Healing." Take a look!

• MISCELLANEOUS FACTS ABOUT SLAVERY -- Fascinating Florida Times-Union article entitled "The Facts & Faces of Slavery," by Nicole Johnson McGill.  Gives various info about slavery in Florida & in general.

• FAMILIES WITH SLAVE ANCESTORS -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Legacy of Past in Today's Families," by Nicole Johnson McGill & Alliniece T. Andino.  Tells about local families that can trace back to slave forebears. 

• INFO ABOUT JAX SLAVERY -- Florida Times-Union book review entitled "A Detailed Look at Slavery in Florida," by Simon Barker-Benfield.  Reviews the book Slavery in Florida, by Larry Rivers.  The book review gives some info about slavery in Jacksonville & in Florida. 

• INFO SOURCES FOR FLORIDA SLAVERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Sources & Resources."  Provides a list of info sources for the history of Florida slavery.  Includes public records, books & manuscripts, local experts & historians, libraries, museums, historical societies, & websites.

• INFO SOURCES FOR FLORIDA SLAVERY -- Untitled article from St. Augustine.com that tells about local info sources in regard to Florida slavery.

• INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER SLAVES -- Some very interesting reading from the American Memory Project.  BACKGROUND INFO:  During the 1930s, federal government initiated the WPA (Works Progress Administration or Work Projects Administration).  One of its many projects had government employees interviewing former slaves about their lives.  These included African Americans who had been enslaved in Duval County.  These also included people who were living in Duval County during the 1930s, but had been enslaved elsewhere.  NOTE: When you get to the webpage's search engine, use such terms as "Jacksonville," "Duval County," or any other words you choose to type in.  You can also browse by state & by subject.

• WPA -- Website entitled "American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography."  Advertises itself as "the authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives on the Web."

• AFRICAN AMERICANS & NATIVE AMERICANS -- This website gives a very detailed history of the relations between African Americans & Native Americans in Florida.  Much of the history concentrates on the Seminole Indians of Florida.  Also provided is info about Zephaniah and Anna Kingsley.  The history was prepared by the U.S. Department of Defense.

• AGRICULTURAL, AGRICULTURAL, & NATURAL HISTORY -- List of library, archive & map collections with historical material on the environmental, agricultural & natural history of Florida.  According to the website, "This material includes books, maps, aerial photographs and images, ... materials of interest to the study of the Florida environment, ecology, agriculture, natural resources, plants, animals and other biotic characteristics."  List provided by the Florida Biotic Information Consortium.

• GREENFIELD PLANTATION -- USGenWeb info about Greenfield Plantation.  This Duval County residence was destroyed by Union troops during the Civil War.   Was located west of Mayport. 

ST. AUGUSTINE

• ST. AUGUSTINE & SLAVERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "St. Augustine Once a Hub of Slave Trade," by Margo Pope.

• SLAVERY & ST. AUGUSTINE -- St. Augustine.com article entitled "Slavery and the Oldest City: The Arrival of Slavery in the New World Occurred nearly 500 Years Ago; Reminders Remain Today," by Margo Pope. 

MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION

• MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION -- A brief overview of this plantation, from the Florida Historical Markers Program.  BACKGROUND INFO: Mulberry Grove Plantation was partially located where the Jacksonville Naval Air Station is now.  The plantation was established in about 1787, and it was once owned by John H. McIntosh.  He was a leader in the so-called Patriot War in 1812.  This was an attempt by U.S. citizens to seize East Florida from the Spanish. 

• YUKON CEMETERY &  MULBERRY GROVE PLANTATION -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Residents Look to History," by Sandy Strickland.  Tells about Yukon Cemetery, a small African-American graveyard. BACKGROUND INFO:  Yukon Cemetery is located in a heavily wooded area at Avent Drive & Roosevelt Boulevard, between Ortega Hills and Yukon.  It may have been first used as a burial ground for the slaves of Mulberry Grove Plantation.