The numbers, along with what is known about Forrester, tell a story that is both disturbing and dehumanizing and shed light on what life as a possession was like for Black Floridians.įorrester was among those living with the Seminoles in this area.īorn somewhere along the St.
The Times aggregated those numbers from history books and journals, old government documents and letters sent to and from this area in the 1800s. territory, statistics detail the history of slavery in Hillsborough County - which originally included modern-day Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties. “So not a lot of scholars have studied slavery and sought to find those stories to bring them to public attention.”ĭating to Florida’s time as a U.S. “People are still uncomfortable talking about it,” said Cheryl Rodriguez, professor of Africana Studies and Anthropology at the University of South Florida. And the enslaved likely preferred to forget about their experiences rather than pass on those stories. They chose to omit the ugliness of slavery. Local history was written, in part, by the enslavers and their descendants. With the exception of Forrester and a few others, little is known about the stories of those enslaved here, and for good reason, historians told the Tampa Bay Times. It was earlier than much of the rest of the nation’s enslaved people were emancipated. Marry Me.Tampa Emancipation Day is May 6, marking the 159th anniversary of the announcement by Union troops that the city’s enslaved people had been set free.The Tenderfoot Bride, Harlequin Historical, November 2003.Child of Her Heart, Silhouette Logan's Legacy, December 2004.Prairie Wife, Harlequin Historical, February 2005.Million-Dollar Makeover, Silhouette Montana Mavericks, June 2005.His Secondhand Wife, Harlequin Historical, July 2005.The Bounty Hunter, Harlequin Historical, September 2005.The Lawman's Bride, Harlequin Historical, February 2007.
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