Atlantic Creoles in the age of revolutions /

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 bre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Landers, Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
To 1945
Black people > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Black people > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Creoles > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Creoles > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Revolutions > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Revolutions > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Créoles > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Créoles > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Révolutions > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Révolutions > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
HISTORY > North America.
Black people.
Creoles.
Revolutions.
Caribbean Area > History > To 1810.
Caribbean Area > History > 1810-1945.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 1810-1945.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • African choices in the revolutionary South
  • The counter-revolution in Saint Domingue
  • Maroons, loyalist intrigues, and ephemeral states
  • Black militiamen and African rebels in Havana
  • Black Seminoles: a nation besieged
  • Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba
  • Epilogue: failed promises of the Atlantic revolutions.

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