Common Wind e-bog
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The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "e;history from below."e; Scott follows the spread of "e;rumors of emancipation&q...
E-bog
78,54 DKK
Forlag
Verso
Udgivet
27 november 2018
Længde
272 sider
Genrer
General and world history
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781788732499
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "e;history from below."e; Scott follows the spread of "e;rumors of emancipation"e; and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved.Though The Common Wind is credited with having "e;opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,"e; the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.