Tag: Jane Landers

  • Today, those records and others live on in the Slave Societies Digital Archive. This archive, which I launched in 2003, now holds approximately 600,000 images dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Since its creation, the archive has led to new insights into African populations in the Americas.

  • For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…

  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…