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

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

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the …

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