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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Landers, Jane (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2010.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.