Florida in 1821 – A Woman of Color Tests the System – by James Cusick and Jason Zappulla
Above – Image of a well-to-do free woman of color (detail) from a Mexican casta painting. Ilona Katzew, La Pintura de Castas: Representaciones Raciales en el México del Siglo XVIII (Turner, 2004) One of the odder episodes in Andrew Jackson’s brief tenure as governor of Florida was the court…
