Fortresses on Sand: The History of Florida -- pt. 3
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Spanish and the Creole Society in Pensacola
The english had created the carolina colony, which was now a near neighbor and a threat to florida on the atlantic coast. And so the spanish crown invested then in creating a colony on pensacola bay in 16 98 managing to get there just one year before the french founded their colony at baluxi in 16 99. They found that the environment was not nearly so paradisal as it had been described. It had poor soil for agriculture, extreme heat in the summer, tropical diseases. But none the less, the presidio hung on to existence through the early 17 hundreds. People still had higher or lower social status and different legal statuses based on the amount
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