Jane Gilmer Landers (born January 1, 1947)[1] is an historian of colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World who specializes in the history of Africans and their descendants.
[2] Landers was born in Pittsburgh and raised in the Dominican Republic, where her father was a naval officer attached to the United States diplomatic mission at Santo Domingo.
She is the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions[5] which won the Florida Historical Society's 2010 Rembert Patrick Book Award.
She continued her research in Spain, then followed the documentary trail of the Mose settlers who had evacuated to Cuba with the Spanish Floridanos when Great Britain acquired Florida in 1763.
[10][11] She found many of them in 18th-century Catholic parish registers of Havana, Matanzas, Regla, Guanabacoa and San Miguel del Padrón.