Los caminos españoles en La Florida

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Ann L. Henderson, Gary Ross Mormino
Pineapple Press Inc, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 364 pages

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.

 

Contents

Introduction
11
In Search of Spanish Pathways
24
Disease and the Indians of Florida
58
Hernando de Sotos Entrada into La Florida
78
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
94
Criollo Cattleman
118
Spanish Friar of Colonial Florida
140
Floridano Planter
168
Plants of the New World
204
The Moreno Family of the Gulf Coast
220
Context and Consciousness
240
Paulina Pedroso and Las Patriotas of Tampa
258
Folk Artist of Key West and Tampa
280
Maurice Ferré Xavier Suarez and the Ethnic Factor
302
What Will We Celebrate?
328
Glossary
345

Americas First Free Black Community
188

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About the author (1991)

Ann Henderson has a Ph.D. in American civilization from George Washington University and has taught history at all levels. She served as a U.S. foreign service officer in Peru and Honduras and was executive director of the Florida Humanities Council.