The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean

by Tessa Murphy

Book Overview

In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social, economic, and informal political connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean. Focusing on a chain of volcanic islands, each one visible from the next, whose societies developed outside the sphere of European rule until the end of the Seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253388
• ISBN13: 9780812253382
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"