Jane G. Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

• * Introduction *1. African Choices in the Revolutionary South: Becoming Atlantic Creoles *2. Slave Rebels and Defenders of Kings: The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue *3. Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States in the Contested Lower South *4. Atlantic Creoles, African Rebels, and Spain's Liberal Constitution of 1812 in Havana *5. Atlantic Creoles among the Seminoles: A Nation Besieged *6. Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas: Becoming Black * Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions * Appendix 1: Chronology * Appendix 2: Prince's Black Company * Notes * Index

From thousands of gossamer, broken threads of narrative, Jane Landers has rewoven the whole tapestry of life along the Atlantic seaboard for Native Americans, imported slaves, Creoles and free blacks. Excellently researched, and eminently readable, it is an illuminating, groundbreaking work.

Jane G. Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

• * Introduction *1. African Choices in the Revolutionary South: Becoming Atlantic Creoles *2. Slave Rebels and Defenders of Kings: The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue *3. Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States in the Contested Lower South *4. Atlantic Creoles, African Rebels, and Spain's Liberal Constitution of 1812 in Havana *5. Atlantic Creoles among the Seminoles: A Nation Besieged *6. Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas: Becoming Black * Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions * Appendix 1: Chronology * Appendix 2: Prince's Black Company * Notes * Index

From thousands of gossamer, broken threads of narrative, Jane Landers has rewoven the whole tapestry of life along the Atlantic seaboard for Native Americans, imported slaves, Creoles and free blacks. Excellently researched, and eminently readable, it is an illuminating, groundbreaking work.

Jane G. Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

• * Introduction *1. African Choices in the Revolutionary South: Becoming Atlantic Creoles *2. Slave Rebels and Defenders of Kings: The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue *3. Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States in the Contested Lower South *4. Atlantic Creoles, African Rebels, and Spain's Liberal Constitution of 1812 in Havana *5. Atlantic Creoles among the Seminoles: A Nation Besieged *6. Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas: Becoming Black * Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions * Appendix 1: Chronology * Appendix 2: Prince's Black Company * Notes * Index

From thousands of gossamer, broken threads of narrative, Jane Landers has rewoven the whole tapestry of life along the Atlantic seaboard for Native Americans, imported slaves, Creoles and free blacks. Excellently researched, and eminently readable, it is an illuminating, groundbreaking work.