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American settlers began to establish cotton plantations in north Florida which required numerous laborers which they supplied by buying slaves in the domestic market by 1860 Florida had only 140,424 people of whom 44% were enslaved There were fewer than 1,000 free African Americans before the American Civil War; Taxis (102) 2.08 In the South-West Atlantic a peak was reached in the mid-1980s and catches now fluctuate between 1.7 and 2.6 million tons the most important species the Argentine shortfin squid which reached half a million tons in 2013 or half the peak value is considered fully fished to overfished Another important species was the Brazilian sardinella with a production of 100,000 tons in 2013 it is now considered overfished Half the stocks in this area are being fished at unsustainable levels: Whitehead's round herring has not yet reached fully fished but Cunene horse mackerel is overfished the sea snail perlemoen abalone is targeted by illegal fishing and remain overfished. In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it.

. . Talmudic University (private/Jewish) FIU's founding president Charles "Chuck" Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search at 32 years old the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and at the time the youngest university president in the country Perry recruited three co-founders Butler Waugh Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo Alvah Chapman Jr former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Ridder chairman used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort in the 1980s Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees. . NFL football player The airport has four parking facilities: a two-level short-term parking lot directly in front of Concourse E two seven-story parking garages (Dolphin and Flamingo) located within the terminal's curvature and connected to the terminal via overhead walkways on Level 3 and a surface parking lot (South Parking Lot) east of the Flamingo Garage the parking areas were originally numbered with the short-term lot known as Park 1 and the parking garages were originally four separate structures numbered Park 2-5 in the 1990s the parking garages were combined with Park 3 and 5 becoming the Dolphin Garage which was simultaneously expanded to accommodate the new Concourse A and Park 2 and 4 became the Flamingo Garage the two parking garages are connected via a bridge at the top level. .