A Forgotten Chapter Remembered: The British Era in Central Florida History, 1763-1784
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Join historian Deborah Bauer as she reveals Central Florida’s connection to the forgotten fourteenth British American colony. Learn how plantations, enslaved African laborers, and the American Revolution played a role in this important, often overlooked, chapter in Florida’s march to American statehood.

Dr. Deborah L. Bauer holds a doctorate from the University of South Florida and master’s degrees from the University of North Florida and University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in publications including the Florida Historical Quarterly, Florida Studies, and Southeastern Archaeology, and she is currently preparing a manuscript for publication based on her dissertation, “Trial & Error: Royal Authority and Families in the Colonization of British Florida, 1763-1784.” Dr. Bauer serves on the Board of Directors of the Seminole County Historical Society and is president of the Society for Historic Casselberry and the Central Florida Anthropological Society.

This free event will be held via the Zoom platform.

The year 2021 will mark 200 years since Florida’s American era began. This year’s theme of our Brechner Speaker Series, “Becoming Florida,” is an exploration of the histories of the people who inhabited Florida before it became a United States territory.