Jane Landers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Landers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Landers |
| SIGNATURE | LANDERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8490-7301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Homage to Peter H. Wood and Black Majority
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes …
Africans and Their Descendants in the Spanish Empire in the Age of Revolutions
As they had in early modern Spain, Africans and their descendants across the Spanish Empire were able to achieve freedom through a variety of legal means. In the seventeenth century, as European competitors contested Spain’s claims on the Americas, free black military units became key to the defense of Spanish territories and the Spanish Crown recognized and rewarded their service. After a French monarch assumed the vacant throne of Spain in the …
Mães Fundadoras no período Colonial
Maritime Marronage
This Forum addresses the topic of maritime marronage in the Greater Caribbean region. Since the historian Neville Hall coined the term in 1985, there has been a rich vein of work on enslaved people
Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier
Franco/Spanish Entanglements in Florida and the Circumatlantic
This essay analyzes the entangled histories of France and Spain in Florida and the circum-Atlantic and is based on little-utilized primary sources from Spain, Florida, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. The French and the Spaniards crossed paths, often violently, through war, piracy and revolutions, from the period when the French contested the Spanish territorial claims in the New World in the 16th century to the late 18th century when the Frenc…
From Dust to Digital
New Sources and New Findings for Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Previously untapped, Catholic Church records document historic networks among free black communities in Havana, Matanzas and other Atlantic ports. In earlier centuries, membership in overlapping religious and military corporations advanced their interests and gained them status in Spanish society. The slave revolt of Saint-Domingue, the Cuban sugar boom and the rise of abolitionist activity, however, caused their position to deteriorate rapidly i…
Against the Odds
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum
Founding Mothers
Debates históricos contemporáneos
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de vario…
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
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
Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives
Ever since Frank Tannenbaum argued about the nature of the relationship between the Catholic Church and slavery in the New World, religion has been an important subject for scholars working on the history of slavery in the Americas.1 Ecclesiastical records provide an important documentary source, and church archives in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean provide the longest serial data available for the history of Africans in the Ameri…
Slave Resistance On the Southeastern Frontier
Borderland or Border-Sea? Placing Early Florida
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. The essays trace the relationship of Florida to the Caribbean and Atlantic economies
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities
Maroons have long captivated historians and popular audiences alike. Their daring and initiative in the face of terrible oppression and relentless persecution command our interest and sympathy, and yet only a few almost superhuman figures emerge from the historical treatment and the folk legends. Most maroons remained anonymous and little specific is known about them – their names, their origins, or ethnicity. What little we can determine about t…
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
This book, first published in 2001, sets out a paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long over-due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped the…
Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives
BOOK REVIEWS Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sara Pamela Williams. Edited by James M. Denham and Canter Brown Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 215. Illustrations, maps. $39.95.) Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida. Edited by Jane G. Landers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Pp. 219. Illustrations, maps. $49.95.) Other works by the edito…
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Black Society in Spanish Florida
The African Experience in Early Spanish America
Of the five great African diasporas of historical record, as recently described by Colin Palmer, the fourth includes the story of Blacks in Spanish America. It remains the best studied of the “five major African diasporic streams,” thanks to pioneering work by scholars such as Palmer, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Frederick Bowser, Herbert Klein, Rolando Mellafe, and others, as well as a flurry of recent and forthcoming publications by a new generatio…
The African Experience in Early Spanish America
Of the five great African diasporas of historical record, as recently described by Colin Palmer, the fourth includes the story of Blacks in Spanish America. It remains the best studied of the “five major African diasporic streams,” thanks to pioneering work by scholars such as Palmer, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Frederick Bowser, Herbert Klein, Rolando Mellafe, and others, as well as a flurry of recent and forthcoming publications by a new generatio…
Africans in the Spanish colonies
Maritime Marronage
This Forum addresses the topic of maritime marronage in the Greater Caribbean region. Since the historian Neville Hall coined the term in 1985, there has been a rich vein of work on enslaved people
Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives
Ever since Frank Tannenbaum argued about the nature of the relationship between the Catholic Church and slavery in the New World, religion has been an important subject for scholars working on the history of slavery in the Americas.1 Ecclesiastical records provide an important documentary source, and church archives in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean provide the longest serial data available for the history of Africans in the Ameri…
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
Black Community and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands
In 1992 David J. Weber published a masterful synthesis called The Spanish Frontier in North America which reminded readers that despite a national historiography that tends toward the Anglocentric, Spanish claims on North America date to 1513 and its governance of communities scattered across the entire southern rim of what is today the United States lasted well over two centuries. Weber's sweeping book chronicles the complex history of Spanish c…
Against the Odds
Journal Article Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas. Ed. by Jane G. Landers. (Portland: Cass, 1996. xiv, 158 pp. Cloth, $38.50, ISBN 0-7146-4710-1. Paper, $19.25, ISBN 0-7146-4254-1.) Get access T. Stephen Whitman T. Stephen Whitman Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 199…
Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Previously untapped, Catholic Church records document historic networks among free black communities in Havana, Matanzas and other Atlantic ports. In earlier centuries, membership in overlapping religious and military corporations advanced their interests and gained them status in Spanish society. The slave revolt of Saint-Domingue, the Cuban sugar boom and the rise of abolitionist activity, however, caused their position to deteriorate rapidly i…
Founding Mothers
Against the Odds
An eighteenth-century community in exile
History of the evacuation of 1763, when Floridians had to move away after the English seized the colony from Spain. Most of the migrants settled in Cuba. Several hundred families of Spanish descent and their slaves made new lives in Havana. Author focuses on the Florida Africans and Indians and the history of a new multi-ethnic settlement named San Agustín de la Nueve Florida
Alabama and the Borderlands From Prehistory to Statehood
Africans in Colonial Louisiana
The African-American Heritage of Florida
These 12 essays examine the rich and substantial African American heritage of Florida, documenting African American contributions to the state's history from the colonial era to the late 20th century
Acquisition and loss on a Spanish frontier
The African American Heritage of Florida
An eighteenth-century community in exile
History of the evacuation of 1763, when Floridians had to move away after the English seized the colony from Spain. Most of the migrants settled in Cuba. Several hundred families of Spanish descent and their slaves made new lives in Havana. Author focuses on the Florida Africans and Indians and the history of a new multi-ethnic settlement named San Agustín de la Nueve Florida
Africans in the Spanish colonies
Black Community and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands
In 1992 David J. Weber published a masterful synthesis called The Spanish Frontier in North America which reminded readers that despite a national historiography that tends toward the Anglocentric, Spanish claims on North America date to 1513 and its governance of communities scattered across the entire southern rim of what is today the United States lasted well over two centuries. Weber's sweeping book chronicles the complex history of Spanish c…
Against the Odds
Journal Article Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas. Ed. by Jane G. Landers. (Portland: Cass, 1996. xiv, 158 pp. Cloth, $38.50, ISBN 0-7146-4710-1. Paper, $19.25, ISBN 0-7146-4254-1.) Get access T. Stephen Whitman T. Stephen Whitman Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 199…
Female Conflict and Its Resolution in Eighteenth-Century St. Augustine
Historian Charles Cutter has analyzed the “non-adversarial nature” of the Spanish legal culture and the manner in which Spanish authorities deployed written law ( ley ), customary law ( derecho ), and personal discretion ( arbitrio judicial ) effectively to achieve justice ( equidad ), even in peripheral areas of the empire. The primary objective of judicial administration was the resolution of conflict and restoration of harmony within the Spani…
Against the Odds
The African Experience in Early Spanish America
Of the five great African diasporas of historical record, as recently described by Colin Palmer, the fourth includes the story of Blacks in Spanish America. It remains the best studied of the “five major African diasporic streams,” thanks to pioneering work by scholars such as Palmer, Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Frederick Bowser, Herbert Klein, Rolando Mellafe, and others, as well as a flurry of recent and forthcoming publications by a new generatio…
The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities
Maroons have long captivated historians and popular audiences alike. Their daring and initiative in the face of terrible oppression and relentless persecution command our interest and sympathy, and yet only a few almost superhuman figures emerge from the historical treatment and the folk legends. Most maroons remained anonymous and little specific is known about them – their names, their origins, or ethnicity. What little we can determine about t…
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
This book, first published in 2001, sets out a paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long over-due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped the…
Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives
BOOK REVIEWS Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sara Pamela Williams. Edited by James M. Denham and Canter Brown Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 215. Illustrations, maps. $39.95.) Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida. Edited by Jane G. Landers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Pp. 219. Illustrations, maps. $49.95.) Other works by the edito…
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida
This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. The essays trace the relationship of Florida to the Caribbean and Atlantic economies
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
Borderland or Border-Sea? Placing Early Florida
Slave Resistance On the Southeastern Frontier
Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives
Ever since Frank Tannenbaum argued about the nature of the relationship between the Catholic Church and slavery in the New World, religion has been an important subject for scholars working on the history of slavery in the Americas.1 Ecclesiastical records provide an important documentary source, and church archives in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean provide the longest serial data available for the history of Africans in the Ameri…
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
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
Debates históricos contemporáneos
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de vario…
Against the Odds
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum
History (28 works) · Geography (19 works) · Cuban History and Society (18 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · History (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Ethnology (14 works) · Law (11 works)