how much was Florida involved in the in the Civil War I'm thinking Floridians have got a different relationship I

think to the Confederacy true or false it's true it's complicated partly because you know Florida has a part of its history as a Spanish colony and during the Civil War a lot of fascinating things were happening a lot of slaves escaped from Georgia and North Carolina and Mississippi and other states escaped into Florida and they many of them joined with Native Americans who had escaped from different forms of oppression during the Trail of Tears and other periods who they escaped the Florida and actually there was a anthropologist call it ethno genesis there was a new ethnic group formed the Seminole people who included black Seminole and Native Americans from a variety of tribes and it's a very relevant question to the question of a new humanity because a group of people forged a new composite a multi-racial multi-tribal humanity in the midst of the carnage that was going on between the northern and southern states but what what is really interesting after the Civil War here in Florida Florida has the highest had the highest per capita of lynchings of any state that's why things that are in our more recent history like the murder of Trayvon Martin for example or what we have here called stand your ground laws all of these evoke that kind of history of in a sense making up for lost time and jumping on the segregationist and apartheid kind of bandwagon in the years after the Civil War.