Ossian Bingley Hart; Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, [2], 320, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Abbreviations Used in Notes. Illustrations. Map. Footnotes. Note on Primary Sources. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the Series title page. Minor edge soiling. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Canter Brown Jr. is a historian, professor and author. He was born in Fort Meade, Florida and earned his degrees at Florida State University. He has taught at Florida A&M University and has worked at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia. Brown has written on Florida and southern United States history, including Florida's Peace River Frontier (Orlando, 1991, earning him the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award, and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (Baton Rouge, 1997), winner of the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association of State and Local History. In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874) -- a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state -- from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart's life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day -- the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular -- and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction. Brown traces Hart's life from his childhood in the newly founded port town of Jacksonville through his service as a volunteer soldier in the Second Seminole War, his education in South Carolina, and his legal and political career on Florida's Atlantic frontier to his election as governor in 1872 and his death sixteen months later. Brown's biography offers a rare glimpse at the persistence of Loyalism in the post-Civil War South and clearly illustrates the pivotal role played by both Loyalists and African Americans in southern politics of that era. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida, Governor, Kate Campbell, Fort Pierce, Tallahassee, Key West, Civil War, Freedman's Bureau, Republican, Associate Justice, Jacksonville, Thomas Osborn, Harrison Reed, Unionists, Loyalists, David Walker, David Yulee
ISBN: 0807121371
[Book #78515]
Price: $125.00