Abstract
During the past three decades Florida’s Civil War and Reconstruction-era history has been the subject of careful reconsideration. Beginning with the 1963 publication of John E. Johns’s Florida During the Civil War and continuing with Joe M. Richardson’s The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877 and Jerrell H. Shofner’s Nor Is It Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877, the complexities of the period have been vividly revealed.1 New and far more positive perspectives upon the lives and careers of black leaders, carpetbaggers, and southern loyalists can be credited among the results of this revisionist scholarship.
Recommended Citation
Foster, Sarah Whitmer
(1992)
"Chloe Merrick Reed: Freedom's First Lady,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 71:
No.
3, Article 3.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss3/3
