Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this
is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties
of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern
frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial
Spanish administration's attitude toward resident Americans. The
Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ownership,
McMichael shows, used an efficient system of land distribution and
government patronage that engendered loyalty and withstood a series
of conflicts that tested, but did not shatter, residents'
allegiance. McMichael focuses on the Baton Rouge district of
Spanish West Florida from 1785 through 1810, analyzing why resident
Anglo-Americans, who had maintained a high degree of loyalty to the
Spanish Crown through 1809, rebelled in 1810.
The book contextualizes the 1810 rebellion, and by extension the
southern frontier, within the broader Atlantic World, showing how
both local factors as well as events in Europe affected lives in
the Spanish borderlands. Breaking with traditional scholarship,
McMichael examines contests over land and slaves as a determinant
of loyalty. He draws on Spanish, French, and Anglo records to
challenge scholarship that asserts a particularly "American"
loyalty on the frontier whereby Anglo-American residents in West
Florida, as disaffected subjects of the Spanish Crown, patiently
abided until they could overthrow an alien system. Rather, it was
political, social, and cultural conflicts--not nationalist
ideology--that disrupted networks by which economic prosperity was
gained and thus loyalty retained.
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