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Buse Utkan

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What did it mean to be a colonist in the British East and West Florida? This question inspired an investigation into the society and inner workings of an often overlooked, and certainly under-researched, area in United States History. Florida's colonial history has a strong emphasis on its status as a Spanish colony and largely ignores its transformative British years. The topic of my research is similarly under-researched yet important: how gender affected the lives of the colonists living in British Florida. Florida was traded from the Spanish to the British after the Seven Years' War in the Treaty of Paris (1763) and was held by the British until 1783. It was a frontier land: scarcely settled by Europeans, with a harsh climate and rough terrain, and home to many native tribes. This created a unique blend of settlers in the Florida colonies and created a social dynamic unlike the colonial stereotype of other British settlements. Due to the recent discovery of two extremely rare primary sources written by women, The Memoir of Mary Port Macklin and a Memoir of an Officers Wife, I attempt to

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University of Florida / Buse Utkan, Dr. Sharon DiFino, Dr. Charles Ellis / 2023

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Buse Utkan