000000727 001__ 727 000000727 005__ 20251007025013.0 000000727 0247_ $$a10.6082/M1930R8B$$2doi 000000727 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bDissertation 000000727 041__ $$aeng 000000727 245__ $$aThe Creole Archipelago: Colonization, Experimentation, and Community in the Southern Caribbean, c.1700-1796 000000727 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000000727 269__ $$a2016-03 000000727 300__ $$a366 000000727 336__ $$aDissertation 000000727 502__ $$bPh.D. 000000727 520__ $$aThis manuscript situates the southern Caribbean as an epicenter of broader contests over racial belonging, political participation, and economic practices in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Focusing on islands that were not incorporated into the British and French empires until after the Seven Years’ War in 1763, the project traces the creation and persistence of a ‘Creole Archipelago’ that united Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Tobago in a shared social, economic, and informal political space. Colonial correspondence, parish and property records archived in the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States enable me to reconstruct the features of a distinctive society forged by thousands of Amerindians, free and enslaved Africans, and poor whites who chose or were forced to settle beyond the boundaries of European sovereignty in early America. In the watery borderlands of the southern Caribbean, generations of interracial extended families created a community in which free people of color enjoyed authority and respect; slaveholding was practiced on a small scale; and trade was conducted without regard to mercantilist restrictions. Repeated attempts to assimilate or erase this community revealed the limits of metropolitan domination, as residents of the Creole Archipelago seized the opportunities presented by decades of intra- and inter-imperial conflict to re-assert their autonomy and authority in the face of increasingly restrictive colonial regimes. Eschewing imperial frameworks in favor of focusing on the intimate interactions around which free and enslaved people built their everyday lives, this work emphasizes how creolized communities acted as a practical and ideological challenge to European rule in early America. 000000727 540__ $$a© 2016 Tessa Murphy 000000727 653__ $$aAtlantic History 000000727 653__ $$aCaribbean History 000000727 653__ $$aColonization 000000727 653__ $$aEarly American History 000000727 653__ $$aRace 000000727 653__ $$aSlavery 000000727 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000000727 691__ $$aHistory 000000727 7001_ $$aMurphy, Tessa$$uUniversity of Chicago 000000727 72012 $$aJulie Saville 000000727 8564_ $$9c2183263-a3e6-4c2c-b598-99e44bc5e4a9$$eEmbargo (2019-03-31)$$s4045647$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/727/files/Murphy_uchicago_0330D_12932.pdf 000000727 902__ $$ahttp://hdl.handle.net/11417/425 000000727 903__ $$aMade available in DSpace on 2017-09-18T13:47:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Murphy_uchicago_0330D_12932.pdf: 4045647 bytes, checksum: 0b2cd0e6dc59e8e89c77a23abe741c8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1 000000727 909CO $$ooai:knowledge.uchicago.edu:727$$pDissertations$$pGLOBAL_SET$$qthesis_test 000000727 945__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000727 945__ $$aSocial Sciences Division - Dissertations 000000727 946__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000727 946__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000000727 980__ $$aMIG 000000727 983__ $$aDissertation