
Quote of the Day from the Governor of Spanish Florida

“Crackers are nomadic like Arabs and, distinguished from the savages only in their color, language and superiority of their depraved cunning and unruliness.“
Vicente Manuel de Céspedes
Governor of Spanish East Florida – 1784

Richard Thornton

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how explicitly said, senore, .. and the horse you rode in on.
Note the two men gawking at the Crackers from behind the plank fence. One is wearing a top hat.
I had no idea this “term of endearment” was so old.
1784? So there was a letter “K” in the Spanish alphabet in Florida at that time? .
I Take cold comfort in the fact that some of mine walked around leading a spavined mule, yet hawking his load of new made trap wares. Good gawd, who knew?
thanks for my cackle this early morn.
and the smile I’m wearing….take care.
May your steps fall softly, with ease.
Coming from a Spaniard that is quite a compliment. My cracker ancestors thank you.
we all breathe the same ayuh