Florida's Dark Chapters

<p> Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see splashed across news and social media: Disney Miami alligators heat retirees and weird people. As a result very few people try to dig any deeper.</p><p> This book explores the darkest parts of Florida's past. These stories told out in sequential order and broken down by theme contain everything that has come to make up the Sunshine State: from the surprising to the weird to the horrifying and in some cases inspiring. Topics covered include Florida in the Age of Exploration pirates Spanish colonialism the Seminole Wars slavery and race relations during the Civil War Prohibition segregation disco and drugs serial killers economic ruin urbanism and Florida in the age of DeSantis.</p>