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Return to Book Page. Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions 4. 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. Big Prince Whitten, the black Seminole Abraham, and General Georges Biassou were Atlantic creoles, Africans who found their way to freedom by actively engaging in t 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.
Big Prince Whitten, the black Seminole Abraham, and General Georges Biassou were Atlantic creoles, Africans who found their way to freedom by actively engaging in the most important political events of their day.
These men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds, who were fluent in multiple languages and familiar with African, American, and European cultures, migrated across the new world s imperial boundaries in search of freedom and a safe haven. Yet, until now, their extraordinary lives and exploits have been hidden from posterity.
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 and 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.
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Cooper Bronwen Everill Brooke N. Newman Brooke Wooldridge Bruce L. Nightingale Carl Weinberg Carla L. Rudisell Carol Faulkner Carol P. Foy Charlotte Carrington Charlton D. Yingling Charlton Yingling Charmaine A. Fennell Christopher Espenshade Christopher F. Petrella Christopher Hodson Christopher L.
Cecelski David Scott David T. Picaithley Dylan Penningroth E. Alpers Edward Balleisen Edward E. Ayers Edward Molloy Edward T. Williams Erik Gilbert Erik J.
Cleall Esther Lezra Eugene D. Olivier de Sardan J.
Curto Jose Davila Josep M. As a consequence of their royalist sympathies and their seemingly reactionary politics, some of these creoles lost a spotlight in the revolutionary history of the Atlantic. Landers discusses the very lives that traverse the ocean and land. Black militiamen, as literal political units, played an integral role in the diaspora of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary ideas. The knowledge gained from travels and encounters made these men important nodal points in an intricate network of information.
As Landers observes, these militiamen were known for their prowess. Their previous experiences often coalesced when units were mixed. In , for example, various revolutionary experiences came together on the grounds of Spanish Florida. Although the chapters of Atlantic Creoles are organized geographically and each chapter showcases specific individuals, Landers deftly illustrates how these experiences were intertwined and not necessarily geographically bound. Shared military service and marriages brought some Atlantic Creoles together.
Lieutenant Whitten, escaping his enslavement in Georgia, found refuge for himself and his family in Spanish Florida. From chapter to chapter, genealogical roots and Atlantic routes connect individuals and their relatives in an elaborate network of Atlantic Creoles. Landers not only examines these creoles who actively sought freedom but also demonstrates how the recovery of these lives illuminates surrounding lives and, in effect, multicultural communities of the Atlantic. The protagonists of Atlantic Creoles were deeply embedded and invested in their respective societies.
Landers uses Barba as a conduit to examine the cultural practices and social organizations in Havana.