
Storm Over Key West
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Storm over Key West is a little-known story woven of many threads, but its main theme is the denial to black people of the equality central to the American ideal. After the island's slaves flocked to freedom during the summer of 1862, the white majority began a century-long campaign to deny black residents civil rights, education, literacy, respect, and the vote.
Key West's harbor and two major federal forts were often referred to as "America's Gibraltar." This Gibraltar guarded the Florida Straits between Key West and Cuba and thus access to the Gulf of Mexico. When Union forces seized it before the war, the southernmost point of the Confederacy slipped out of Confederate hands. This led to a naval blockade based in Key West that devastated commerce in Florida and beyond.This book is the widest-ranging narrative history to date of the military bastion in the Florida Keys.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. PEACE SLIPS AWAY
- 1. The Coming Storm
- 2. Slave Days
- 3. The Inner Circle
- 4. Slavers
- 5. Secession
- 6. Waiting for War
- 7. An End to Peace
- 8. Divided Loyalties
- 9. A Tightening Grip
- Part II. OCCUPATION, EPIDEMIC, EMANCIPATION
- 10. Invasion
- 11. Smallpox
- 12. "Bereaved Hearts and Desolate Homes"
- 13. Feud
- 14. Blockade
- 15. Freedom
- 16. Swept Away
- 17. Changing of the Guard
- 18. Schemers and Dreamers
- Part III. BRAVE BLACK SOLDIERS ON A HOSTILE ISLAND
- 19. "Soger Men"
- 20. The Road to Key West
- 21. On Trial
- 22. Calamity
- 23. Horror on Land and Sea
- 24. Dr. Holder's Brainstorm
- 25. And Death Marched On
- 26. Trial by Fire
- 27. Assassination
- 28. Visitors Esteemed and Notorious
- 29. White Man's War, White Man's Peace
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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