Editing Creole peoples (section)

=== Chesapeake Colonies ===
{{Main|Chesapeake Colonies}}

[[Atlantic Creole]] is a term coined by historian [[Ira Berlin]] to describe a group of people from Angola and Central Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries with cultural or ethnic ties to [[Africa]], [[Europe]], and sometimes the [[Caribbean]]. Some of these people arrived in the Chesapeake Colonies as the Charter Generation of [[Slavery|slaves]] during the [[European colonization of the Americas]] before 1660. Some had lived and worked in Europe or the Caribbean before coming (or being transported) to North America.<ref name="Berlin">{{cite journal |last1=Berlin |first1=Ira |title=From Creole to African |journal=William and Mary Quarterly |date=April 1, 1996 |volume=53 |issue=2 |page=266 |doi=10.2307/2947401 |jstor=2947401 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947401 |access-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331225526/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947401 |url-status=live }}</ref> Examples of such men included [[John Punch (slave)|John Punch]] and [[Emanuel Driggus]] (his surname was likely derived from [[Rodrigues (surname)|Rodrigues]]). 
Also, during the early settlement of the colonies, children born of immigrants in the colonies were often referred to as "Creole". This is found more often in the Chesapeake Colonies.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=387JNEjpczQC&pg=PA9 |title=First Generations: Women in Colonial America |author=Carol Berkin |page=9 |date=July 1997 |access-date=2016-10-03 |isbn=9780809016068 |archive-date=2023-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320035510/https://books.google.com/books?id=387JNEjpczQC&pg=PA9 |url-status=live }}</ref>