"A Class of People Admitted to the Better Ranks": The First Generation of Creoles in Russian America, 1810s-1820s

This article argues that the creation of a creole estate in early nineteenth-century Russian America was motivated by cultural rather than racial concerns. Creoles were the offspring of Russian or indigenous men and native women. An analysis of the earliest known list of creoles allows the author to...

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Published in:Ethnohistory
Main Author: Smith-Peter, Susan
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2013
Subjects:
Creating Creoles and Being Creole in Siberia
Russian America
and Alaska
Alaska
Siberia
Online Access:http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/60/3/363
https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140758
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