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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 eighteenthcentury 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 listeners with an intellectual history of the enslaved
Though The Common Wind 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having opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words the manuscript remained unpublished for thirtytwo years Now after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World it has been published for the first time with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker
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