Part I: Introducing Africa in Florida -- Mapping Africa in Florida: into the lushness of history / Amanda Carlson with Robin Poynor -- An overview of Florida's black past / Nathaniel Millett -- Cross the water / Adrian Castro -- A conversation about "cross the water" / Amanda Carlson and Adrian Castro -- Gordon Bleach: a portfolio / Gordon Bleach -- Gordon Bleach: home can always be arranged / Amanda Carlson -- Part II: Seeking freedom in and out of Florida: slaves and maroons / African ethnic groups in Colonial Florida / Jane Landers -- African influences on Seminole beadwork / Thomas E. LaRose -- Black towns of the Seminole Indians: Florida's maroon communities / Rosalyn Howard -- From Florida to Veracruz: the foundation of San Carlos Chachalacas / Sagrario Cruz-Carretero -- Slave refuge and gateway: David B. Mitchell and the paradox of the Florida frontier / Andrew K. Frank -- The Kingsley Community: beyond the plantation / Antoinette T. Jackson -- Part III: Forging new identities: African American culture in Florida -- Florida's African connections in the nineteenth century / Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers -- Signs, symbols, and shells: African American cemeteries in Florida / Kara Ann Morrow -- Mother Laura Adorkor Kofi: the female Marcus Garvey / Vibert White Jr -- Barbecuing the diaspora: jerked pig and roast hog in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston / Andrew Warnes -- Ade Rossman's Zora Neale Hurston series: living Africa under the Florida sun / Robin Poynor -- Part IV: Connecting across the Caribbean -- Abakuá communities in Florida: members of the Cuban brotherhood in exile / Ivor L. Miller -- Crowning the Orisha: a Lucumi art in South Florida / Joseph M. Murphy -- The spirit(s) of African religion in Miami / Terry Rey -- Part V: (Re)making Africa in Florida -- Carver Baba Onabamiero Ogunleye and the sacred space of the Ifalola compound / Robin Poynor and Ade Ofunniyin -- Three Lyawos: a Transatlantic Òrìṣà initiation / Ade Ofunniyin -- The sacred space of Ola Olu: a neo-Yoruba site near Crescent City, Florida / Robin Poynor -- Igbo masquerades in the Sunshine State / Amanda Carlson -- African attractions: Florida tourism gone wild / Amanda Carlson.