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No limits to their sway : Cartagena's privateers and the masterless Caribbean in the age of revolutions

Title: No limits to their sway : Cartagena's privateers and the masterless Caribbean in the age of revolutions / Edgardo Pérez Morales.
Author: Pérez Morales, Edgardo
Publication: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]

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Description

xii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With new leadership that included free people of color, Cartagena welcomed merchants, revolutionaries, and adventurers from Venezuela, the Antilles, the United States, and Europe. Most importantly, independent Cartagena opened its doors to privateers of color from the French Caribbean. Hired mercenaries of the sea, privateers defended Cartagena's claim to sovereignty, attacking Spanish ships and seizing Spanish property, especially near Cuba, and establishing vibrant maritime connections with Haiti. Most of Cartagena's privateers were people of color and descendants of slaves who benefited from the relative freedom and flexibility of life at sea, but also faced kidnapping, enslavement, and brutality. Many came from Haiti and Guadeloupe; some had been directly involved in the Haitian Revolution. While their manpower proved crucial in the early Anti-Spanish struggles, Afro-Caribbean privateers were also perceived as a threat, suspected of holding questionable loyalties, disorderly tendencies, and too strong a commitment to political and social privileges for people of color. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena's multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the Trans-Atlantic and maritime dimensions of South American independence."--

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Naval history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-227) and index.

Contents

Slavery, Seamanship, Freedom -- Heralds of Liberty and Disobedience -- Cartagena de Indias and the Age of Revolutions -- The American Connection -- Detachment from the Land and Irreverence at Sea -- Under the Walls of Havana -- Haiti: The Beacon Republic -- "Horrors of Carthagena" -- Robbery, Mutiny, Fire -- Epilogue: From Amelia Island to the Republic of Colombia -- Primary Sources on Cartagena-Flagged Privateers.

Call Number

Sc D 18-198

ISBN

9780826521910
0826521916
9780826521927
0826521924
9780826521934 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017006647

OCLC

975367902

Author

Pérez Morales, Edgardo, author.

Title

No limits to their sway : Cartagena's privateers and the masterless Caribbean in the age of revolutions / Edgardo Pérez Morales.

Publisher

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-227) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1945

Research Call Number

Sc D 18-198

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