Grayson's Florida History Blog

Chapter 15 Worksheet Grayson Foye   Who is the author of this chapter and what information can you find about the author elsewhere in the text?   Jarrel H. Shofner.        According to this chapter, list 2 things that were in desperate need of “reconstruction”   2 things that this chapter makes clear that need reconstruction is obviously slavery, and the economy after the civil war.   Florida stands apart from other areas of the South in the way that General Newton handled two main areas: politics & freedmen.  Discuss both. Florida was reformed faster in regards to freedmen. This is because he informed farmers to start paying their slaves for their work. Regarding Politics, Florida stood apart from other states in regards to the Direct Tax Commission, which helped sell confederate property on union lines.   Demand for cotton was ( increasing or decreasing) during the early years of reconstruction.     ...

 In the novel, A Land Remembered, Tobias provides a guy named Skillit with a job after he was freed from slavery. Slavery was abolished May 20th 1865 and was abolished under Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It took the state of Florida an extra 2 years after the Emancipation to officially abolish slavery in the Floridas.  But, even after the slaves were "officially free," there were many slaves who had no where to go after they were legally free, and many were still enslaved after the proclomation. In the novel, A Land Remembered, Skillit was on the run after he was freed, but had nowhere to go. He only had pants to his name when Tobias found him wandering the land. Sadly, many plantation owners were not following the new laws regarding the abolishment of slavery, leaving many slaves confused on wether they could rightfully leave their plantations and harsh conditions.  This is a flyer from 1860, posted by Edmund Jones informing people of his runaway slave tha...