The term Atlantic Creole was described by historian Dr. Ira Berlin as the black mariner in the early expansion of the British Empire to the Western Hemisphere. The term represents the synthesis of cultures with a foot in one hemisphere and a foot in another with knowledge of both. Following this logic the Atlantic Creole mariner moved between cultures held on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and newly forming cultures on the other side. Sailing the seas and taking the messages from one place to another is what Atlantic Creole is all about.