{"title":"Mike Bunn","description":"MIKE BUNN is the director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South during America's Revolutionary Era. Bunn is the editor of Muscogiana, a member of the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association, chair of the Baldwin County Historical Development Commission, and treasurer of the Friends of Old Mobile. Mike and his wife live in Daphne, Alabama, with their daughter, Zoey. www.mikebunn.net","products":[{"product_id":"fourteenth-colony-the-forgotten-story-of-the-gulf-south-during-americas-revolutionary-era-hardcover","title":"Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana--is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an important and compelling interlude in Gulf Coast history that has for too long been overlooked. For a host of reasons, including the fact that West Florida did not rebel against the British government, the colony has long been dismissed as a loyal but inconsequential fringe outpost, if considered at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the colony's history showcases a tumultuous political scene featuring a halting attempt at instituting representative government; a host of bold and colorful characters; a compelling saga of struggle and perseverance in the pursuit of financial stability; and a dramatic series of battles on land and water that brought about the end of its days under the Union Jack. In Fourteenth Colony, historian Mike Bunn offers the first comprehensive history of the colony, introducing readers to the Gulf Coast's remarkable British period and putting West Florida back in its rightful place on the map of colonial America.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367717142751,"sku":"9781588384133","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/R-O93m1OyR9781588384133.webp?v=1789113366"},{"product_id":"this-southern-metropolis-life-in-antebellum-mobile-paperback","title":"This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabama's physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particular to Gulf Coast history. Mobile's foundational era is a period in which the city transformed from a struggling colonial outpost into one of the nation's most significant economic powerhouses, largely owing to the cotton trade and the labor of enslaved people. On the eve of the Civil War, the Mobile ranked as the fourth most populous community in what would soon become the Confederacy, and within the Gulf Coast region, it stood second only to New Orleans in population, wealth, and influence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to ranking as one of the busiest ports in the United States, the city's remarkable architecture, beautiful natural setting, and abundance of entertainment options combined to make it one of the South's most distinctive communities. Its cultural diversity only added to its uniqueness. In addition to being home to the largest white population of any community in Alabama, the city also claimed the state's largest free Black, foreign-born, and Creole communities. Mobile was the slave-trading center of the state until the 1850s as well and remained thoroughly intertwined with the institution of slavery throughout the antebellum period. By 1860 Mobile's population stood at nearly thirty thousand people, making it the twenty-seventh-largest city in the United States overall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough numerous histories of Mobile have been published, none have focused on the dozens of evocative firsthand accounts published by antebellum-era visitors. These writings allowed literary-minded travelers, who were often consciously looking for things that struck them as singular about a place, to become proxy tour guides for their contemporary readers. 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