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The Many-Headed Hydra - Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The Many-Headed Hydra - Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Winner of the International Labor History Award
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the
Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers,
market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and
equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra
recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the
dispossessed in the making of the modern world.
When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the
early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a
vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers
crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated
around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from
England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas
back to Europe.
Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives
in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working
people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North
Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a
'hydra' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their
ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and
recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity.
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