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CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN LA FLORIDA.

Author: Hoffman, Kathleen.
Author Background:
Date 1/1/97
Type Journal
Journal Title: Historical Archaeology
Volume/Pages 31(1)p.24-35
Publisher
Subject Matter African American
Population
Pedagogies
Abstract Discusses the economic, demographic, and religious forces which produced a distinctive identity for the Spanish frontier settlement of St. Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine wasestablished in 1565 as part of the fortification of coastal settlements and harbors to protect the Spanish fleets carrying silver and other valuable resources between Spain and the Americas.While a consistent pattern of social and economic organization existed during this middle period in Spanish Florida s history, community structures of the Indians, Spanish, and Africansbecame increasingly diversified and intertwined. Intermarriage between the large population of Spanish soldiers and Native American women became common. The Catholic Church, as thedominant religious force, provided a common cultural identity within the community. This interaction among the various ethnic groups, combined with an increasingly localizedeconomy, decreased colonists loyalty to and dependence on Spain.
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