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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... struggles of industrial England in 1835. After a strike among spinners in Stayleybridge, Lancashire, he employed Hercules and his rescue of Prometheus, with his delivery of fire and technology to mankind, to argue for the implementation ...
... struggles of industrial England in 1835. After a strike among spinners in Stayleybridge, Lancashire, he employed Hercules and his rescue of Prometheus, with his delivery of fire and technology to mankind, to argue for the implementation ...
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... he wrote. The theological struggle. Dutch soldiers and guide in a Suriname swamp, c. 1775, by William Blake. John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolred Negroes of Sutinam (1796). INTRODUCTION • 5.
... he wrote. The theological struggle. Dutch soldiers and guide in a Suriname swamp, c. 1775, by William Blake. John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolred Negroes of Sutinam (1796). INTRODUCTION • 5.
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... struggle of "works" against "grace" subverted "all peaceable order." The controversy raised suspicions against religious and political officials, prevented an expedition against the Pequot Indians, confused the drawing of town lots, and ...
... struggle of "works" against "grace" subverted "all peaceable order." The controversy raised suspicions against religious and political officials, prevented an expedition against the Pequot Indians, confused the drawing of town lots, and ...
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... and religious radicals, probably antinomians who believed that God's grace had placed them above the law. The effort to establish an autonomous community failed, but the struggle between heart and hand continued. 12 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
... and religious radicals, probably antinomians who believed that God's grace had placed them above the law. The effort to establish an autonomous community failed, but the struggle between heart and hand continued. 12 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
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... struggle between heart and hand continued. Stephen Hopkins was a learned Puritan and follower of Robert Browne, who ... struggling mainland colony. Sir George himself, however, never made it back to Virginia: having rediscovered the joys ...
... struggle between heart and hand continued. Stephen Hopkins was a learned Puritan and follower of Robert Browne, who ... struggling mainland colony. Sir George himself, however, never made it back to Virginia: having rediscovered the joys ...
Inhalt
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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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