Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Florida’s White Slaves. [ARTICLE]

Florida’s White Slaves.

There are a few Minorcans left in Florida. These Minorcans are whites and came originally from the Island erf Minorca. They were taken to Florida by Dr. Turnbull, who had a great scheme to reclaim the everglades. They were practically In slavery, and rains of the stone walls and roads they built remain yet A few of them survived after the failure of the land reclamation scheme, and these have descendants who still live in Florida. A singular fact is that they have never outlived the stigma that slavery put upon them, and to call a man a Minorcan in Florida is regarded as an insult