List of Chapters

Part I. Introducing Africa in Florida

Mapping Africa in Florida: Into the Lushness of History

Amanda B. 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 B. Carlson and Adrian Castro

Gordon Bleach: A Portfolio

Gordon Bleach

Gordon Bleach: Home Can Always Be Arranged

Amanda B. 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 Iyawos: A Transatlantic Òrìsà 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 B. Carlson

African Attractions: Florida Tourism Gone Wild

Amanda B. Carlson