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Author Landers, Jane, author.

Title Atlantic Creoles in the age of revolutions / Jane G. Landers
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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.
e-books.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
HISTORY -- North America.
Electronic books
Black people
Creoles
Revolutions
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- History -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001302
Caribbean Area -- History -- 1810-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001304
Subject Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009026421
ISBN 9780674054165
0674054164
9780674035911
0674035917