Creolization and Contraband Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Name: Creolization and Contraband Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780820343068

ISBN-10: 0820343064

ISBN-13: 9780820343068

Edition: 2012

Authors: Linda M. Rupert

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When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas.The island’s main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 7/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Emergence of an Entrepï¿½t



Converging Currents



Atlantic Diasporas



"Cruising to the Most Advantageous Places"



Sociocultural Interactions in a Maritime Trade Economy



A Caribbean Port City



Curaï¿½ao and Tierra Firme



Language and Creolization


Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index