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While Confederate patriotism ruled in Middle Florida, in other areas apathy or a growing Unionism led to deprivations and desertion. Slaves fled to freedom and neighbor turned against neighbor. A frontier at the start of the war, the conflict left Florida even more of a wilderness.  Florida’s Civil War: Terrible Sacrifices highlights the diverse experiences of Florida’s population. Whether Confederate or Unionist, free or slave, male or female, no Floridian could escape the war’s impact. A concise narrative of life on the home front, this book explores how Floridians endured the war. Women, slaves, and Unionists are considered in detail, as well as how various areas of the state reacted to Federal incursions. The story of Florida’s Civil War is complex","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625856639249,"sku":"GOR013518857","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881465895.jpg?v=1751363514"},{"product_id":"grander-in-her-daughters-book-tracy-j-revels-9781570035593","title":"Grander in Her Daughters","description":"Though the women of Florida suffered Civil War traumas and privations commensurate with women throughout the Confederacy, few of their experiences have become part of the historical record. With Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War Tracy J. Revels rescues from neglect these women and the challenges they faced. Drawing largely on primary source discoveries, Revels recounts the experiences of wives and widows, Unionists and secessionists, black female slaves and their plantation mistresses, business owners and refugees. Revels finds that no matter their political allegiance, these women lived dual lives, divided in their loyalties between what they often perceived as the competing interests of their nation and their families. Isolated and largely unsettled, Florida remained a frontier into the middle of the nineteenth century. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1861 many Floridians embraced the Southern cause, and the state contributed more than its just share of manpower to the Confederacy. Revels shows that Florida's women, however, were not of one mind in their reaction to the conflict. Using diaries, letters, contemporary published sources, and an extensive series of United Daughters of the Confederacy scrapbooks, she presents the panorama of war through the eyes of such women. Revels confirms that Florida's white women largely shared in the sisterhood of the Confederacy, supporting the cause by making uniforms, serving as nurses, and raising funds. They took on greater managerial responsibilities on farms and plantations, and they endured hardships and deprivations while awaiting the soldiers' return. Not all of Florida's women were Confederates, however, and Revels brings to light the diversity of the female experience. She demonstrates that slave women grew increasingly resistant to their condition as the war dragged on. Unionist women aided the Federals, free black women found new opportunities for employment, and poor women focused much more on providing for their families than on any cause of a political nature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391301292305,"sku":"CIN1570035598G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1570035598.jpg?v=1786442420"},{"product_id":"sunshine-paradise-book-tracy-j-revels-9780813068176","title":"Sunshine Paradise","description":"Focuses exclusively on how - and why - tourism came to define Florida. 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As a result, the state has constantly reshaped and remodeled itself as different types of tourist heavens, and many aspects of its history have become inseparable from the fantastic images created by the tourism industry. From spa retreats to nature preserves, from riverboat rides to roller coasters, and from railroads to theme parks, the state's dependence on tourism has greatly shaped its identity.Sunshine Paradise is the first book to focus exclusively on how--and why--tourism came to define Florida. Offering a concise look at the subject from the 1820s to the present, Tracy Revels demonstrates tourism's relevance to all other major aspects of Florida history, including the Civil War, the land boom, and civil rights.In this enjoyable and well-written history, Revels shows how Florida's tourism industry has remained adaptive and expansive, ready to sell the next version of paradise to northerners hungry for sunshine. She also explains why the state's business and political leaders must consider the history of tourism development as they plan for the state's future.A volume in the Florida History and Culture Series, edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51804102197521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804102754577,"sku":"CIN0813035422VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780813035420.jpg?v=1786614425"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-tracy-j-revels.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}