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 project has remained unpublished for thirty-two years, since it's completion at Duke University in 1986.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.
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Julius S. Scott's The Common Wind is a tour de force. Rigorously researched and beautifully written, it has profoundly shaped our understanding of Black Atlantic history. Indeed, Scott's study of the movement of people, ideas, words, papers, and even feelings among people of African descent in the eighteenth century is a stunny model for any kind of history. -- Ada Ferrer, author of <i>Insurgent Cuba</i> and <i>Freedom Now</i> An important part of the tradition of scholarship that puts the end of modern slavery in a global perspective. -- Robin D.G. Kelley author of <i>Freedom Dreams</i> and <i>Race Rebels</i> Over the past three decades, scholarship on the Black Atlantic and black internationalism has flourished. The Common Wind deserves a great deal of credit for this development...Julius Scott offers an inspiring history about the subaltern production, transformative power, and global circulation of ideas. -- Brandon Byrd * African American Intellectual History Society * This is meticulous and wide ranging social history, which provides a vivid and illuminating account of the ways these societies worked, whether under British, French or Spanish colonial rule. * Counterfire *
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78873-247-5 (9781788732475)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Julius Scott III is a professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
