Atlantic Creoles in the age of revolutions
By: Jane G. Landers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674035911
Description: "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. Whereas Africans in the Atlantic world are traditionally seen as destined for the slave market and plantation labor, Landers reconstructs the lives of unique individuals who managed to move purposefully through French, Spanish, and English colonies, and through Indian territory, in the unstable century between 1750 and 1850. Mobile and adaptive, they shifted allegiances and identities depending on which political leader or program offered the greatest possibility for freedom. Whether fighting for the King of Kongo, England, France, or Spain, or for the Muskogee and Seminole chiefs, their thirst for freedom helped to shape the course of the Atlantic revolutions and to enrich the history of revolutionary lives in all times."--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African choices in the revolutionary South; title: The counter-revolution in Saint Domingue; title: Maroons, loyalist intrigues, and ephemeral states; title: Black militiamen and African rebels in Havana; title: Black Seminoles: a nation besieged; title: Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba; title: Epilogue: failed promises of the Atlantic revolutions.