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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... thousand men were gathered, with The courage and strategy of Caesar and Eugene, Theydfind their work cut out for them, destroying a Hydras growth Which even Alcides [Hercules] would try to avoid Writing to and for other Europeans ...
... thousand men were gathered, with The courage and strategy of Caesar and Eugene, Theydfind their work cut out for them, destroying a Hydras growth Which even Alcides [Hercules] would try to avoid Writing to and for other Europeans ...
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... thousand tons of water out of the leaky vessel.1 It was not enough. The waterline did not recede, and the people at the pumps had reached the limits of their strength, endurance, and hope. Now that the exhausted sailors had done all ...
... thousand tons of water out of the leaky vessel.1 It was not enough. The waterline did not recede, and the people at the pumps had reached the limits of their strength, endurance, and hope. Now that the exhausted sailors had done all ...
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... thousands of men and women off the land and denying them access to commons. By the end of the sixteenth century there ... thousand deserted villages and hamlets, confirming the colossal dimensions of the expropriation of the peasantry ...
... thousands of men and women off the land and denying them access to commons. By the end of the sixteenth century there ... thousand deserted villages and hamlets, confirming the colossal dimensions of the expropriation of the peasantry ...
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... thousand).17 Under Edward VI (1547- 1553) they had their chests branded with the letter Vand were enslaved for two years; under Elizabeth I (1558-1603) they were whipped and banished to galley service or the house of correction. The ...
... thousand).17 Under Edward VI (1547- 1553) they had their chests branded with the letter Vand were enslaved for two years; under Elizabeth I (1558-1603) they were whipped and banished to galley service or the house of correction. The ...
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... thousand allied Algon- quians inhabited a rich ecological zone made up of mixed forest and Chesapeake waterways, on which they exercised an economy of collecting and horticulture. They hunted (Virginia white-tailed deer, bear, wild ...
... thousand allied Algon- quians inhabited a rich ecological zone made up of mixed forest and Chesapeake waterways, on which they exercised an economy of collecting and horticulture. They hunted (Virginia white-tailed deer, bear, wild ...
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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