The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution.

• Author: Da Cruz, Joshua

Scott, Julius S. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution. New York: Verso, 2018.

Julius Scott, a lecturer of African American and African studies at the University of Michigan, provides an in-depth look at the spread of information among the free and enslaved blacks in the New World during the eighteenth century. Scott pays special attention to the role of sailors in the spreading of information among people who would normally have restricted access to that information. The author originally started this work as his doctoral dissertation at Duke University. Although initially interested in publishing his manuscript with Duke University Press, Scott refused to make the edits required by the press. The book, therefore, was not published until thirty-two years later by Verso Books. The Common Wind holds the potential of shaping the understanding of a new generation of scholars and students of the Age of the Haitian Revolution.

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