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: f…
"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 …
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 …