The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution - Couverture rigide

Scott, Julius S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788732472 ISBN 13 : 9781788732475

Editeur : Verso Books, 2018

Synopsis

Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colorful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful 'history from below,' this book follows those 'rumors of emancipation' and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the revolution against slavery.

Though it's been said that The Common Wind is 'the most original dissertation ever written,' and is credited for having 'opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,' the PhD. project has remained unpublished for thirty-two years, since it's completion at Duke University in 1986. Now, after decades of achieving wide acclaim by leading historians of slavery and the new world, it will finally be released by Verso for the first time, with a foreword from Marcus Rediker.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Julius Scott III is a lecturer of AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788732472
• ISBN 13: 9781788732475
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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