The common wind [electronic resource] : Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian revolution / Julius S. Scott ; foreword by Marcus Rediker.

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"Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colourful 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 thos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Julius Sherrard, III, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Rediker, Marcus (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2018.
Subjects:
Black people > Haiti > Communication > History.
Slave rebellions > Haiti.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Public opinion.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
The Common Wind : Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Format: Electronic eBook
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.