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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions / Jane G. Landers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674054165
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8960729
LOC classification:
  • F2191.B55 L36 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 African Choices in the Revolutionary South -- 2 The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue -- 3 Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States -- 4 Black Militiamen and African Rebels in Havana -- 5 Black Seminoles: A Nation Besieged -- 6 Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba -- Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions -- Appendix 1: Chronology -- Appendix 2: Prince 's Black Company -- Appendix 3: Registry of Negro Prisoners -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Jane Landers radically alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 African Choices in the Revolutionary South -- 2 The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue -- 3 Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States -- 4 Black Militiamen and African Rebels in Havana -- 5 Black Seminoles: A Nation Besieged -- 6 Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba -- Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions -- Appendix 1: Chronology -- Appendix 2: Prince 's Black Company -- Appendix 3: Registry of Negro Prisoners -- Notes -- Index

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Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Jane Landers radically alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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