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  • Florida Founder William P. DuVal

    Frontier Bon Vivant

    The first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.The scion of a well-to-do Richmond, Virginia, family, William Pope DuVal (1784–1854) migrated to the Kentucky frontier as a youth in 1800. Settling in Bardstown, DuVal read law, served in Congress, and fought in the War of 1812.In 1822, largely because of the influence of his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rogue's Paradise

    Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861

    by James Denham ...
    A revealing portrait of law-breaking and law enforcement on the Florida frontierThe pervasive influence of the frontier is fundamental to an understanding of antebellum Florida. James M. Denham traces the growth and social development of this sparsely settled region through its experience with crime and punishment. He examines such issues as Florida's criminal code, its judicial and law ... Read more

    $13.52 CAD

  • Fifty Years of Justice

    A History of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

    The verdicts have made headlines, but little is known about the inner workings of the court in which they were delivered. In Fifty Years of Justice, James Denham presents the fascinating history of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida from its founding in 1962 to the present. Readers will discover the intricacies of rulings, the criminal defendants and civil litigants, and the dedicated ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Answer Day

    One Souls Journey in Discovering a New Way to Pray and Knowing the Exact Day Your Prayer Will Be Answered

    Have you ever earnestly prayed for Gods guidance yet heard nothing but silence? Have you fervently prayed for God to help you with a major issue in your life and yet no answer came for you? Have you ever been filled with worry about a problem and it seems that God just stays far away? Yet with no guidance to go on, you and many other people still must make serious life decisions. But they are made ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Scourge of the Caribbean

    Charles E. Hawkins, Sailor of Three Republics

    Series series Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
    Illuminates the early American period in the upper CaribbeanScourge of the Caribbean explores the mysterious and dramatic life and career of Charles E. Hawkins, a relatively unknown naval figure in early national America. Hawkins’s action-packed life at sea in his brief but accomplished career reveals much about an era when the rules of the maritime world, especially in the Caribbean, were in flux ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives

    The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams

    Wild and wooly recollections from the Florida frontierCracker Times and Pioneer Lives brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship, and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era. With ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Letters of George Long Brown

    A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

    Series series Contested Boundaries
    Previously unpublished letters offering a view of everyday life in north Florida before the Civil WarIn 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging from the devastating effects of the Second Seminole War. This volume presents over seventy of Brown’s previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre–Civil War ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Smallbone Deceased & other stories

    11 Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Crime Dramas

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    Ten full-cast vintage BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Michael Gilbert’s most enduring characters, including Mr Calder and Mr Behrens, Inspector Hazlerigg and Inspector PetrellaA treat for any fan of crime dramas, this collection stars legendary voices including Prunella Scales, Maurice Denham, Peter Gilmore, Carleton Hobbs and James Bolam.Smallbone Deceased: When ... ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • Steal Away Home

    One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South

    For readers of The Underground Railroad, The Known World, Bound for Canaan and The Book of Negroes comes the harrowing story of fifteen-year-old escaped slave Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada only to return to her childhood home as a free woman many years later.“Karolyn Smardz Frost deftly situates Cecelia in history. Her evocative descriptions of landscapes and cityscapes ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Fruit

    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... Read more

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  • The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

    Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom

    by John Baker ...
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