"A swamp of an investment?": Richard Oswald's British East Florida plantation experiment / Daniel L. Schafer -- Blue gold: Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna Plantation / Patricia C. Griffin -- Success through diversification: Francis Philip Fatio's New Switzerland Plantation / Susan R. Parker -- Francisco Xavier Snchez, Floridano planter and merchant / Jane G. Landers -- Zephaniah Kingsley's Laurel Grove Plantation, 1803-1813 / Daniel L. Schafer -- Free Black plantations and economy in East Florida, 1784-1821 / Jane G. Landers -- The plantation system of the Florida Seminole Indians and Black Seminoles during the colonial era / Brent R. Weisman -- The cattle trade in East Florida, 1784-1821 / Susan R. Parker -- Spanish East Florida in the Atlantic economy of the late eighteenth century / James Gregory Cusick.