The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary AtlanticBeacon Press, 03.09.2013 - 448 Seiten Winner of the International Labor History Award Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world. When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe. Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a 'hydra' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity. |
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... captains stemmed the current, "too wise to be counselled by simple American fishermen." He drew up some "Maritime Observations" in 1786, and with these the chart of the Gulf Stream was published in America. * The circular transmission ...
... captains stemmed the current, "too wise to be counselled by simple American fishermen." He drew up some "Maritime Observations" in 1786, and with these the chart of the Gulf Stream was published in America. * The circular transmission ...
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... Captain Christopher Newport, as well as the Virginia Company gentlemen such as Sir George Somers and Sir Thomas Gates, they broke open the ships liquors and in one last expression of solidarity "drunk one to the other, taking their last ...
... Captain Christopher Newport, as well as the Virginia Company gentlemen such as Sir George Somers and Sir Thomas Gates, they broke open the ships liquors and in one last expression of solidarity "drunk one to the other, taking their last ...
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... Captain John Smith knew that the principal attraction for the deserters was the opportunity "to live idle among the savages." Some of those who had lived like savages on Bermuda apparently would not be denied." This situation helped to ...
... Captain John Smith knew that the principal attraction for the deserters was the opportunity "to live idle among the savages." Some of those who had lived like savages on Bermuda apparently would not be denied." This situation helped to ...
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... Captain Christopher Newport on the first Virginia voyage (May-June, 1607) and ended up a renegade: he converted to Algonquian culture and took the name Moutapass.41 The defections continued, especially among soldiers and laborers ...
... Captain Christopher Newport on the first Virginia voyage (May-June, 1607) and ended up a renegade: he converted to Algonquian culture and took the name Moutapass.41 The defections continued, especially among soldiers and laborers ...
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... captains of the tribes, the elders, and the officers and commands: "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water" must enter into a covenant. Jahweh then ...
... captains of the tribes, the elders, and the officers and commands: "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water" must enter into a covenant. Jahweh then ...
Inhalt
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A Blackymore Maide Named Francis | 71 |
The Divarication of the Putney Debares | 104 |
Hydrarchy Sailors Pirares and the Maritime State | 143 |
The Outcasrs of the Nations of the Earth | 174 |
A Morley Crew in the American Revolution | 211 |
The Conspiracy of Edward and Catherine Despard | 248 |
Robert Wedderburn and Arlantic Jubilee | 287 |
Tyger Tyger | 327 |
A Map of the Atlantic 1699 | 354 |
Notes | 355 |
Ackowledgments | 413 |
Index | 417 |
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