The Common Wind

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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 *