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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... Drawers of Water • 36 3. "A Blackymore Maide Named Francis" • 71 4. The Divatication of the Putney Debates • 104 5. Hydrarchy: Sailors, Pirates, and the Maritime State • 143 6. "The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth" • 174 7. A ...
... Drawers of Water • 36 3. "A Blackymore Maide Named Francis" • 71 4. The Divatication of the Putney Debates • 104 5. Hydrarchy: Sailors, Pirates, and the Maritime State • 143 6. "The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth" • 174 7. A ...
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... rat infestation and an ominous visitation by "a company of Ravens, which continued amongst them all the time of the mortality and then departed." CHAPTER TWO Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water All THE WRECK OF THE SEA-VENTURE • }$
... rat infestation and an ominous visitation by "a company of Ravens, which continued amongst them all the time of the mortality and then departed." CHAPTER TWO Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water All THE WRECK OF THE SEA-VENTURE • }$
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... Drawers. of. Water. All I have to do in this world is to be merry, which I shall if the ground be not taken from me. — Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) Youth, youth it is better to be starved by thy nurse Than live ...
... Drawers. of. Water. All I have to do in this world is to be merry, which I shall if the ground be not taken from me. — Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) Youth, youth it is better to be starved by thy nurse Than live ...
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... power. The treatise addressed the conflict between the king and the members of Parliament over who was to hold the purse strings of govern- ment: Bacon advised that the only "chance of healing the HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER • 37.
... power. The treatise addressed the conflict between the king and the members of Parliament over who was to hold the purse strings of govern- ment: Bacon advised that the only "chance of healing the HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER • 37.
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... Hercules; an example which, though it be flourished with much fabulous matter, yet so much it hath, that it doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages in the approbation of HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER • 39.
... Hercules; an example which, though it be flourished with much fabulous matter, yet so much it hath, that it doth notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages in the approbation of HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER • 39.
Inhalt
1 | |
8 | |
36 | |
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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