William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida
In his famous and influential book Travels, the naturalist William Bartram described the St. Johns riverfront in east Florida as an idyllic, untouched paradise. Bartram’s account was based on a journey he took down the river in 1774. Or was it?
Historians have relied upon the integrity of the information in William Bartram''s Travels for centuries, often concluding from it that the British (the col...
In his famous and influential book Travels, the naturalist William Bartram described the St. Johns riverfront in east Florida as an idyllic, untouched paradise. Bartram’s account was based on a journey he took down the river in 1774. Or was it?
Historians have relied upon the integrity of the information in William Bartram''s Travels for centuries, often concluding from it that the British (the col...
