First Edition. This revision to the Florida constitution undid many of the provisions of the "Carpetbagger" constitution of 1868, shifting power from the governor to the counties, with rural areas given disproportionate representation in the legislature. This shift enabled some of the creeping segregation, Jim Crow, and anti-Black laws gradually.....

First Edition. The record of the state assembly's second legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. In his message to the legislature, the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, offers encouraging words about the post-Civil War progress being made: "The newly enfranchised citizen of color sits side by side with.....

First Edition. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly (formerly the House of Representatives, prior to the.....

First Edition. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure, particularly the Florida railroad, Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative.....

First Edition. The first journal of the Florida House after the Civil War when the legislature began to grapple with Reconstruction and rewriting laws for the formerly enslaved men, women, and children in their midst. Florida's elected officials were unrepentant racists. David S. Walker, the first post-war elected governor (William Marvin.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, which ran from November 18, 1861 to December 17, 1861. At the opening of the session, the new governor, John Milton, sent a long message, mostly concerned with Secession and the Civil War.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854–55. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." House Journal pagination: 340.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1856–57. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of reports, perhaps of most interest is the extended.....

First Edition. A collection of short stories set in the world of the Florida space program. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Ryan on the title page. This copy came from the signed first editions club.....

First Edition. One of the earliest Florida Confederate imprints, on the press before the state voted to secede from the Union and completed after secession. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, with the message of Governor Madison S. Perry.....

First Edition. An appeal to the federal government to attend to the military defense of Florida. The author, Charles Fenton Mercer, was a former member of Congress who left his post for financial reasons and took a job at a bank in Florida, where he was working when he wrote.....