The common wind : Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution / Julius S. Scott ; foreword by Marcus Rediker.

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The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a power...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scott, Julius Sherrard, III, 1955-2021 (Author)
Other Authors:	Rediker, Marcus (writer of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.
Subjects:	Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Public opinion. Black people > Haiti > Communication > History. Slave rebellions > Haiti. Black people > Communication. Public opinion. Slave rebellions. Haiti. HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. 1791-1804 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xix, 246 pages : map ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

"Pandora's box" : the masterless Caribbean at the end of the eighteenth century
"Negroes in foreign bottoms" : sailors, slaves, and communication
"The suspence is dangerous in a thousand shapes" : news, rumor, and politics on the eve of the Haitian revolution
"Ideas of liberty have sunk so deep" : communication and revolution, 1789-93
"Know your true interests" : Saint-Domingue and the Americas, 1793-1800.