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He had little doubt that things would proceed in Miami as they had in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach and Palm Beach, but even Flagler could not have predicted the events that would cause…

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Following the war, the Southernmost City once again became a thriving tourist destination, and though now the pirates and the wreckers are gone, as are the turtle-raising corrals and the sponge divers and the cigar factories and the Cuban rollers and their lectors, who read newspapers and novels aloud while they worked, and the blustery big-game-hu

The enactment of tough new trade tariffs would greatly reduce the imports of Cuban tobacco, sugar, and pineapples. New taxes levied on the FEC drove up prices, sending business to competitors sailing from New Orleans and elsewhere.

Reefs in the Caribbean were dying. Some were being done in by development, others by overfishing and pollution. Two of the region’s dominant reef-builders—staghorn coral and elkhorn coral—were being devastated by an ailment that became known as white-band disease. (Both are now classified as critically endangered.) Over the course of the 1980s, som

There was also a community of Black Miamians in Liberty City, and one in Coconut Grove, though there, in the early twentieth century, Bahamian culture predominated. In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston visited Miami and was delighted to witness a Bahamian dance. This prompted her to travel to the Bahamas,…

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