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Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 3 Published by STARS, 1995 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 74 [1995], No. 3, Art. 1 COVER Blanche Armwood and some of her students at the Tampa School of Household Arts in 1916. Photograph Courtesy of Special Collections, University of South Florida. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 3 The Historical Quarterly Volume LXXIV, Number 3 Winter 1996 The Florida Historical Quarterly (ISSN 0015-4113) is published quarterly by the Flor- ida Historical Society, 1320 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL 32935, and is printed by E.O. Painter Printing Co., DeLeon Springs, FL. Second-class postage paid at Melbourne, FL, and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Florida Historical Quarterly, 1320 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL 32935. Copyright 1995 by the Florida Historical Society, Melbourne, Florida. Published by STARS, 1995 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 74 [1995], No. 3, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Jerrell H. Shofner, Interim Editor Samuel Proctor, Editor Emeritus Shannon Lee Moore, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg William S. Coker, University of West Florida David R. Colburn, University of Florida James B. Crooks, University of North Florida Kathleen Deagan, University of Florida Wayne Flynt, Auburn University Michael V. Gannon, University of Florida Maxine D. Jones, Florida State University Harry A. Kersey, Jr., Florida Atlantic University Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University Eugene Lyon, Flagler College John K. Mahon, University of Florida Raymond A. Mohl, Florida Atlantic University Gary R. Mormino, University of South Florida Theda Perdue, University of Kentucky Gerald E. Poyo, St. Mary’s University Joe M. Richardson, Florida State University William W. Rogers, Florida State University Daniel L. Schafer, University of North Florida Correspondence concerning contribution, books for review, and all editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly Department of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-1350. The Quarterly is interested in articles and documents pertaining to the history of Florida. Sources, style, footnote form, originality of material and interpretation, clarity of thought, and interest of readers are considered. All copy, including foot- notes, should be double spaced. Footnotes are to be numbered consecutively in the text and assembled at the end of the article. Particular attention should be given to following the footnote style of the Quarterly. THE AUTHOR SHOULD SUBMIT AN ORIGINAL AND A PHOTOCOPY RETAINING A COPY FOR SECURITY Authors are asked to submit articles in IBM WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1; please include both a hardcopy and a diskette. The Florida Historical Society and the editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly accept no responsibility for statements made or opinions held by authors. The Quarterly reviews books dealing with all aspects of Florida history. Books to be reviewed should be sent to the editor together with price and information on how they may be ordered. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 3 Table of Contents ASIAN IMMIGRATION TO FLORIDA Raymond A. Mohl 261 BLANCHE ARMWOOD OF TAMPA AND THE STRATEGY OF INTERRACIAL COOPERATION Keith Halderman 287 ANDREW DIAS POPPELL, 1894-1955: A TAYLOR COUNTY ENTREPRENEUR Margaret N. Burkley 304 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS REVISITING THE FREDUCCI MAP: A DESCRIPTION OF JUAN PONCE DE LEON'S 1513 FLORIDA VOYAGE? Jerald T. Milanich and Nara B. Milanich 319 REVIEW ESSAYS YELLOW FEVER, THE DOCTORS, AND THEIR VICTIMS IN THE 19TH CENTURY SOUTH Theodore B. VanItallie 329 SEMINOLE/MICCOSUKEE ART David M. Blackard 334 FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS . 340 BOOK REVIEWS . 353 BOOK NOTES . 383 HISTORY NEWS . 386 Published by STARS, 1995 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 74 [1995], No. 3, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS SITUADO AND SABANA: SPAIN’S SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE PRESIDIO AND MISSION PROVINCES OF FLORIDA, by Amy Turner Bushnell reviewed by William S. Coker FLORIDA INDIANS AND THE INVASION FROM EUROPE, by Jerald T. Milanich reviewed by John K. Mahon PEDRO MENÉNDEZ DE AVILÉS, by Eugene Lyon reviewed by Susan R. Parker FORT MEADE, 1859-1900, by Canter Brown, Jr. reviewed by Janet Snyder Matthews THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE OF FLORIDA, edited by David R. Colburn and Jane L. Landers reviewed by Irwin D. Solomon SWAMP SONG: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA’S SWAMPS, by Ron Larson reviewed by Patricia G. Dillon JUMP AT THE SUN: ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S COSMIC COMEDY, by John Lowe reviewed Kathryn Lee Seidel FORAGING AND FARMING IN THE EASTERN WOODLANDS, edited by C. Margaret Scarry reviewed by Andrea A. Hunter THE ECONOMY AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVES: GOODS AND CHATTELS ON THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS OF JAMAICA AND LOUISIANA, by Roderick A. McDonald reviewed by Christopher Morris THE WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION: FROM SLAVE TO WAGE LABOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1860-1870, by Julie Satille reviewed by David A. Zonderman RACE, CLASS, AND COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN LABOR HISTORY, edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed reviewed by Michael David Tegeder THE LAST VOYAGE OF EL NUEVO CONSTANTE: THE WRECK AND RECOVERY OF AN EIGH- TEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH SHIP OFF THE LOUISIANA COAST, by Charles E. Pearson and Paul E. Hoffman reviewed by Robert F. Marx MARCHING WITH SHERMAN, by Henry Hitchcock reviewed by G. B. Crawford NEW SOUTH - NEW LAW. THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF CREDIT AND LABOR RELATIONS IN THE POSTBELLUM AGRICULTURAL SOUTH, by Harold D. Woodman reviewed by Michael Woods COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE NEW SOUTH, by Jeanette Keith reviewed by Gordon B. McKinney REMEMBERING THE MAINE, by Peggy and Harold Samuels reviewed by Robert David Ward CODE-NAME DOWNFALL: THE SECRET PLAN TO INVADE JAPAN---AND WHY TRUMAN DROPPED THE BOMB, by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar reviewed by Edmund F. Kallina, Jr. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol74/iss3/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 3 Asian Immigration to Florida by RAYMOND A. MOHL y the mid-1990s, few states could challenge Florida’s Sunbelt B growth image and megastate status. Now the fourth largest state, following California, Texas, and New York, Florida has had a dramatically rising demographic trajectory for most of the twenti- eth century. Indeed, the state’s population growth rate has never fallen below 28 percent a decade since 1900; it was much higher than that during the boom years of the 1920s (52 percent), the 1950s (79 percent), and the 1970s (44 percent). Since 1960, how- ever, a substantial portion of the state’s new population has come as a consequence of immigration. Careful estimates in 1995 suggest that about 18 percent of Florida’s almost 14 million residents are foreign born, including several hundred thousand undocumented or illegal immigrants.1 The rapid rise of Florida’s multicultural population has gen- erally been attributed to the massive migrations of Cuban exiles to the Sunshine State since 1959. The heavy attention devoted to the outspoken and politically active Cuban exiles, who are mostly con- centrated in South Florida, has diverted journalistic and scholarly focus from the state’s many other nationality groups and immi- grant communities. In fact, however, by 1990 Florida’s Cubans were outnumbered collectively by other Hispanic groups—Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Central/South Americans—all of whose num- bers are now growing more rapidly than the state’s Cuban pop- ulation. Many other immigrant newcomers have also contributed to Florida’s twentieth-century ethnic transformations. Several hun- dred thousand Haitians have made South Florida home in the past Raymond A. Mohl is professor of history, Florida Atlantic University. 1. Raymond A. Mohl, “Florida’s Changing Demography: Population Growth, Urbanization, and Latinization,” Environmental and Urban Issues, 17 (Winter 1990), 22-30; Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino, “From Dixie to Dream- land: Demographic and Cultural Change in Florida, 1880-1980,” in Randall M. Miller and George E. Pozzetta, eds., Shades of the Sunbelt: Essays on Ethnicity, Race, and the Urban South (Westport, CT, 1988), 161-191. On illegal immigrants in Florida, see Rebecca L. Clark, et al., Fiscal Impacts of Undocumented Aliens: Selected Estimates for Seven States (Washington, D.C., 1994), 5-6; State of Florida, The Unfair Burden: Immigration’s Impact on Florida (Tallahassee, 1994), 8-9. [261] Published by STARS, 1995 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 74 [1995], No. 3, Art. 1 262 FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY two decades. South Florida has large concentrations of Jamaicans, French Canadians, and recently arrived Soviet Jews, as well as an aging cohort of East European Jewish retirees. Historically, Finns have concentrated in Lake Worth, Palestinians in Jacksonville, Ba- hamians in Key West and Miami, Greeks in Tarpon Springs, Italians and Spaniards in Tampa. More recently, Vietnamese exiles have settled in Pensacola, where they carry on traditional shrimping and fishing activities. Over 20,000 Maya Indians from Guatamala work as farm laborers and in nurseries and landscape jobs in the agri- cultural areas of southeast Florida.