{"product_id":"the-common-wind-afro-american-currents-in-the-age-of-the-haitian-revolution-paperback","title":"The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulius S. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Common Wind\u003c\/i\u003e 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 powerful \"history from below.\" Scott follows the spread of \"rumors of emancipation\" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved.\u003cbr\u003eThough \u003ci\u003eThe Common Wind\u003c\/i\u003e is credited with having \"opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,\" the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulius S. Scott \u003c\/b\u003eis a lecturer of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcus Rediker\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra\u003c\/i\u003e (with Peter Linebaugh), \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Amistad Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e. He produced the award-winning documentary film \u003ci\u003eGhosts of Amistad\u003c\/i\u003e, about how the Amistad Mutiny of 1839 lives on today in popular memory among the people of Sierra Leone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769559318816,"sku":"9781788732482","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/05c8dfa877f9f8e65224f50344c59129.webp?v=1780350799","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-common-wind-afro-american-currents-in-the-age-of-the-haitian-revolution-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}