Part I: Introducing Africa in Florida
Mapping Africa in Florida: into the lushness of history / Amanda Carlson with Robin Poynor
An overview of Florida's black past / Nathaniel Millett
Cross the water / Adrian Castro
A conversation about "cross the water" / Amanda Carlson and Adrian Castro
Gordon Bleach: a portfolio / Gordon Bleach
Gordon Bleach: home can always be arranged / Amanda Carlson
Part II: Seeking freedom in and out of Florida: slaves and maroons / African ethnic groups in Colonial Florida / Jane Landers
African influences on Seminole beadwork / Thomas E. LaRose
Black towns of the Seminole Indians: Florida's maroon communities / Rosalyn Howard
From Florida to Veracruz: the foundation of San Carlos Chachalacas / Sagrario Cruz-Carretero
Slave refuge and gateway: David B. Mitchell and the paradox of the Florida frontier / Andrew K. Frank
The Kingsley Community: beyond the plantation / Antoinette T. Jackson
Part III: Forging new identities: African American culture in Florida
Florida's African connections in the nineteenth century / Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers
Signs, symbols, and shells: African American cemeteries in Florida / Kara Ann Morrow
Mother Laura Adorkor Kofi: the female Marcus Garvey / Vibert White Jr
Barbecuing the diaspora: jerked pig and roast hog in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston / Andrew Warnes
Ade Rossman's Zora Neale Hurston series: living Africa under the Florida sun / Robin Poynor
Part IV: Connecting across the Caribbean
Abakuá communities in Florida: members of the Cuban brotherhood in exile / Ivor L. Miller
Crowning the Orisha: a Lucumi art in South Florida / Joseph M. Murphy
The spirit(s) of African religion in Miami / Terry Rey
Part V: (Re)making Africa in Florida
Carver Baba Onabamiero Ogunleye and the sacred space of the Ifalola compound / Robin Poynor and Ade Ofunniyin
Three Lyawos: a Transatlantic Òrìṣà initiation / Ade Ofunniyin
The sacred space of Ola Olu: a neo-Yoruba site near Crescent City, Florida / Robin Poynor
Igbo masquerades in the Sunshine State / Amanda Carlson
African attractions: Florida tourism gone wild / Amanda Carlson.
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Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State. ISBN 9780813044576. Published by University Press of Florida in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
