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Scott, Julius Sherrard, III, 1955-
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Blacks -- Haiti -- Communication -- History.
Slave insurrections -- Haiti.
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Public opinion.
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Scott, Julius Sherrard, III, 1955-
Blacks -- Haiti -- Communication -- History.
Slave insurrections -- Haiti.
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Public opinion.
MARC Display
The
common
wind
:
Afro-American
currents
in the
age
of the
Haitian
revolution
/ Julius Scott ; foreword by Marcus Rediker.
by
Scott, Julius Sherrard, III, 1955-
Verso, 2018.
Call #:
972.9403 S427c
Subjects
Blacks -- Haiti -- Communication -- History.
Slave insurrections -- Haiti.
Haiti -- History --
Revolution
, 1791-1804 -- Public opinion.
ISBN:
9781788732475 (hc.)
Description:
272 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Pandora's box" : the masterless Caribbean at the end of the eighteenth century -- "Negroes in foreign bottoms" : sailors, slaves, and communication -- "The suspence is dangerous in a thousand shapes" : news, rumor, and politics on the eve of the
Haitian
revolution
-- "Ideas of liberty have sunk so deep" : communication and
revolution
, 1789-93 -- "Know your true interests" : Saint-Domingue and the Americas, 1793-1800.
Summary:
"Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The
Common
Wind
provides a gripping and colourful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful "history from below," this book follows those "rumours of emancipation" and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the
revolution
against slavery. Though it has been said that The
Common
Wind
is "the most original dissertation ever written," and is credited for having "opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigour and a commitment to the power of written words," the PhD project has remained unpublished for thirty-two years, since it was completed at Duke University in 1986. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the new world, it will be released by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by Marcus Rediker"--From publisher.
Other authors:
Rediker, Marcus.
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