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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... merchant ships took to sail from Rhode Island to London. In talking to Nantucket whalers, he learned about the Gulf Stream: the fishermen and the whales kept out of it, while the English captains stemmed the current, "too wise to be ...
... merchant ships took to sail from Rhode Island to London. In talking to Nantucket whalers, he learned about the Gulf Stream: the fishermen and the whales kept out of it, while the English captains stemmed the current, "too wise to be ...
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... merchants, manufacturers, planters, and royal officials of northwestern Europe followed these currents, building trade routes, colonies, and a new transatlantic economy. They organized workers from Europe, Africa, and the Americas to ...
... merchants, manufacturers, planters, and royal officials of northwestern Europe followed these currents, building trade routes, colonies, and a new transatlantic economy. They organized workers from Europe, Africa, and the Americas to ...
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... merchants dispossessed native peoples in the Americas, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius asked, "Can any nation . . . discover what belonged to someone else?" Whose was Bermuda? Whose was America? Whose was Africa? Whose island was England ...
... merchants dispossessed native peoples in the Americas, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius asked, "Can any nation . . . discover what belonged to someone else?" Whose was Bermuda? Whose was America? Whose was Africa? Whose island was England ...
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... swarmes of idle persons" who had once been sustained by the commons. The merchant, investor, and publicist Robert Gray recalled a time when the commons of our Country lay free and open for the 20 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
... swarmes of idle persons" who had once been sustained by the commons. The merchant, investor, and publicist Robert Gray recalled a time when the commons of our Country lay free and open for the 20 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
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... merchants.31 In 1618, soon after the first performance of The Tempest, English slave traders, chartered as the Company of Adventurers of London Trading to Gynney and Bynney by James I, built the first permanent English factory in West ...
... merchants.31 In 1618, soon after the first performance of The Tempest, English slave traders, chartered as the Company of Adventurers of London Trading to Gynney and Bynney by James I, built the first permanent English factory in West ...
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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