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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 5147. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

In eight chapters this study analyzes the religious experiences of blacks in Florida between 1565 and 1906. The first three chapters concentrate on the period from the founding of St. Augustine to the beginning of Radical Reconstruction. Because understanding the religious experiences of black Floridians during the nineteenth century requires a grasp of the nature of cultural change in the preceding century, Chapter 1 outlines the colonial moorings of the history of black Floridians. A denomination-by-denomination treatment of slave religion between 1822 and 1861, found in Chapter 2, reveals that the modal public worship setting for most Florida slaves, regardless of denomination, was racially mixed, white-controlled churches in which black members were generally relegated to special pews, galleries, and other spatial restrictions. Chapter 3 throws light on the murky Civil War years during which black religious assertion began to be felt. Once freedom came, the desires of black Christians for churches and pastors of their own, already visible throughout the slavery era, were made manifest. The subsequent four chapters discuss the central role of emergent independent black churches in the economic, political, and social development of Florida's black population during the first four decades after emancipation. One chapter each is devoted to the A.M.E. Church, other Methodists, and Baptists. The remaining denominations (such as Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, and Lutherans) are treated in a single chapter. Finally, Chapter 8 broadly interprets the role of religion in Afro-American cultural change, focusing on the centrality and persistence of possession-like ritual behavior and spanning over three hundred forty years. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1836. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.

This study is an historical examination of the establishment of racial segregation and four stages in its development in Florida. First, it assesses the inceptional stage during the antebellum period when the initial provisions were made for segregated institutions. This is followed by a review of the developmental stage immediately after conclusion of the Civil War. In this period native whites took temporary control of the state, and attempted to recreate a society much like that of the antebellum period. They proceeded to enact laws requiring segregated accommodations and conveyances, and legally discriminating against freedmen. A period of idealism and hope followed in the era of Republican Reconstruction. The Republicans erased discriminatory provisions from the laws. Finally, it examines in detail the post-Reconstruction years when native whites regained control, reintroduced discriminatory measures and provided for an extensive segregation code. / The author concludes that racial segregation in Florida was gradually incorporated during the years following Republican Reconstruction and firmly established by 1896. Establishment of the practice was facilitated by prevailing white attitudes towards blacks, moderate Republican appeasement of native whites, demise of black voting strength, intra-party strife among Republicans, and not least, by white vengeance. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-11, Section: A, page: 3458. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-04, Section: A, page: 2284. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1976.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-12, Section: A, page: 7901. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1976.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 4004. / The American Missionary Association played an important role in the slaves' transition to freedmen. This study examines the work of the AMA with black North Carolinians during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Life for Yankee teachers in the South is described, along with their motives for coming, the various tasks they performed and the Southern reaction to their presence and labors. Attention is given to the relief, religious and missionary activities of the Association, but the emphasis is on Education. Freedmen's desire and eagerness to learn, black academic progress, curriculum, obstacles and discipline are discussed in chapters II, III, and IV. The role of black teachers in the AMA and the contributions of native blacks to the education movement are also delineated. In addition, the AMA's relationship with and its labors in the black community and its work with the state's poor whites are analyzed and adds valuable new information to Freedmen's Aid Literature.

Thesis (doctoral)--City University, 1994. / BLDSC reference no.: DX183264.

Inaug.-diss.--Tübingen. / "Literaturverzeichnis": v p. at end.

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