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

This widely acclaimed and influential work of African American history traces the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era.

“An important part of the tradition of scholarship that puts the end of modern slavery in a global perspective.” —Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams and Race Rebel

Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colorful account of inter-continental communication networks that ti...