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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... capital punishments in English America, hanging one man and executing another by firing squad to quell the resistance and carry on with the task of colonization. As the others sailed off to Virginia, two men, one a seaman, decided to ...
... capital punishments in English America, hanging one man and executing another by firing squad to quell the resistance and carry on with the task of colonization. As the others sailed off to Virginia, two men, one a seaman, decided to ...
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... capital invested by adventurers whose chief interest lay in the returns expected from their investment." Here, in the pooling of capital for a new world-trade organization, lay the origins of the voyage of the Sea-Venture}* The ...
... capital invested by adventurers whose chief interest lay in the returns expected from their investment." Here, in the pooling of capital for a new world-trade organization, lay the origins of the voyage of the Sea-Venture}* The ...
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... capital, and the force that transformed land and labor into commodities. This is how some of the workers aboard the Sea- Venture had become "hands." Shakespeare recognized the truth of expropriation in The Tempest when he had the ...
... capital, and the force that transformed land and labor into commodities. This is how some of the workers aboard the Sea- Venture had become "hands." Shakespeare recognized the truth of expropriation in The Tempest when he had the ...
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... capital punishment? Ever sensitive to the problems faced by his fellow investors in the Virginia Company, Shakespeare considered the issues of authority and class discipline in The Tempest. Aboard the ship, Gonzalo faces an uppity ...
... capital punishment? Ever sensitive to the problems faced by his fellow investors in the Virginia Company, Shakespeare considered the issues of authority and class discipline in The Tempest. Aboard the ship, Gonzalo faces an uppity ...
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... capital through the transport of commodities, which included, as we have seen, the expropriated workers who would create that new capital. One critical instrument of control was the public hanging. When Gonzalo prays to fare that the ...
... capital through the transport of commodities, which included, as we have seen, the expropriated workers who would create that new capital. One critical instrument of control was the public hanging. When Gonzalo prays to fare that the ...
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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