The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

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Original title

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Original publication date

2000

People/Characters

John Adams; Samuel Adams, Jr.; James Aitken; Nasir al-Din; Algonquins; John Allens (show all 517); Richard Allen; American Sons of Liberty; Joyce Appleby; Francis Asbury; Anthony Ascham; John Atkins; Crispus Attucks; Matthew Backhouse; Francis Bacon; Nathaniel Bacon; Moses Baker; Alexander Lindsay; James Bannantine; William Wildman; James Barrow; Nathaniel Batts; Paul Bayne; Major John Beake; Francis Beaumont; Carl Becker; Hilary Beckles; Aphra Behn; A. L. Beier; Sam Bellamy aka Black Sam; Charles Napier Bell; John Bellingham; William Benbow; Anthony Benezet; Benjamin Bennet; Edouard Bernstein; Aneurin Bevan; Father Antoine Biet; George Bishop; William Blake; Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; Anne Bonny; Edward Boscawen; Bow Street Runners; Robert Boyle; Richard Braithwaite; Joseph Brand; E. K. Brathwaite; Asa Briggs; British and Foreign Bible Society; J. S. Bromley; Richard Brothers; Tom Brown; Robert Browne; Thomas Browne; Theodore de Bry; Cornelius Bryan; Hugh Bryan; William Buchan; William Bull; John Bunyan; Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet; Edmund Burke; William Burnaby; Robert Burns; Edward Burrough; Robert Burton; George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron; John Calley; John Calvin; Archibald Campbell; Elizabeth Campbell; Horace Campbell; John Canne; Bernard Capp; Richard Carlisle; Rachel Carson; Mary Cary; John Cashman; Michelangelo Cerquozzi; Aimé Césaire; Joseph Chalmers; Henry Chandler; Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Samuel Chidley; Josiah Child; Thomas Chippendale; Scott Christianson; Edward Hyde; Adam Clark; George Clarke; Peter Clark; Laurence Clarkson; Thomas Carkson; William Cobbett; Edward Coke; Thomas Coke; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Thomas Collier; Sir Henry Colt; Christopher Columbus; Alexander Colvill; William Combe; Edward Condent; James Cone; Connecticut Wits; James Connolly; Charles Coote; Abiezer Coppe; Michael Corbett; Jerry Corker; Ned Coxere; Robert Coster; William Coxon; Walter Craddock; Wesley Frank Craven; Henry Cromwell; Oliver Cromwell; Ottobah Cugoano; John Culpeper; Thomas Dale; John Dalling; R. J. Davis; Joan Dayan; Douglas Deal; John Dean; Thomas Dekker; Catherine Despard; Edward Marcus Despard; Jean-Jacques Dessalines; Charles Dickens; Dinah; John Donne; George Downing; Micheal Drayton; Thomas Dring; John Dryden; W. E. B. Du Bois; Wiliiam Dudingston; John Murray; Mary Dyer; Peter Easton; Thomas Edwards; John Ehrman; Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough; Thomas Ellis; Robert Emmet; Friedrich Engels; Edward England; Olaudah Equiano; Dorcas Erbery; Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Benjamin Evans; Thomas Evans; William Everard; Thomas Ewins; Alexander Exquemelin; Thomas Fairfax; Silvia Federici; Adam Ferguson; Lucas Fernandez; George Ferrers; John Fielding; Fisk Jubilee Singers; Edward Fitzgerald; Fly Boys; Richard Ford; George Fox; Oxenbridge Foyle; Francis; Benjamin Franklin; Free African Society of Philadelphia; William Frend; Peter Fryer; Thomas Fuller; Thomas Gage; Alexander Garden; Samuel Gardiner; William Lloyd Garrison; Marcus Garvey; John Gast; Thomas Gates; John Gay; David George; George III, King of the United Kingdom; George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland; Goerge Germain; Joseph Gerrard; Thomas Gewen; Humphrey Gilbert; Alexander Giraffi; John Glas; Morgan Godwyn; Oliver Goldsmith; George Gordon; Thomas Green; Robert Greene; Nanny Grigg; Hugo Grotius; Juan Francisco de Güemes; Hannah Guy; John Gwin; Richard Hakluyt; Alexander Hamilton; Elizabeth Hamilton; Lydia Hardy; Thomas Harman; James Harrington; John Harriss; Jane Hawkins; John Hawkyns; Samuel Haynes; Dorothy Hazzard; Hercules; Arthur Hesilrige; Peter Haywood; Barry Higman; Bridget Hill; Christopher Hill; Thomas Hobbes; James Holdip; Dennis Hollister; Robert Holmes; Stephan Hopkins; Daniel Horsmanden; Job Hortop; House of Burgesses; Martin Howard, Jr.; James Howell; John Hughson; David Hume; Henry Hunt; Robert Hunter; Anne Hutchinson; Thomad Hutchinson; Luke Hutton; Hyacinth; Herny Ireton; George Jackson; C. L. R. James; James VI and I, King of Scots and King of England; John Jea; Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferys; Thomas Jeremiah; Henry Jessey; John Jessup; Richard Jobson; Edward Johnson; Francis Johnson; Joseph Johnson; Samuel Johnson; Absalom Jones; Joshua Jones; Ben Jonson; Silvester Jourdain; James Joyce; William Kane; Carol Karlsen; James Kelley; Margaret Kerry; William Kiffin; Boston King; Kunta Kinte; Rudyard Kipling; Hanserd Knolly; Charles Knowles; Père Labat; Charles Lamb; Thomas Lamb; Sarah Latchett; Henry Laurens; Nicholas Lawes; Hugo Leaming; Bartolomew Legate; John Leland; Jesse Lemisch; Sir John Lenthall; Daniel Leonard; Charles Leslie; Matthew Gregory Lewis; George Liele; Richard Ligon; John Lilburne; Jack Lindsey; John Locke; Robert Lockyer; John Lok; London Corresponding Society; Long Bridge Boys; Edward Long; David S. Lovejoy; Richard Lovelace; George Lowther; Loyal American Rangers; Edmund Ludlow; James G. Lydon; Daniel Lysons; Ebenezer MacIntosh; Phyllis Mack; John MacNamara; R. R. Madden; James Madison; Ras Tefari Makonnen; Thomas Malthus; Nelson Mandela; Mansfield's Army; Martin Markall; Robert Markham; Frederick Marryat; Andrew Marvell; Karl Marx; Masaniello; Cotton Mather; Joseph Mather; William Mathews; Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange; J. J. Mauricius; Jonathan Mayhew; Claud McKay; Edgar J. McManus; John Merrington; Kerby A. Miller; John Milton; Thomas Moffat; Thomas More Molyneux; Thomas Molyneux; William Monson; Michel de Montaigne; Thomas More; J. B. Moreton; Lewis Henry Morgan; Richard B. Morris; Thomas Morton; Benjamin Moseley; Mosquito Indians; Moutapass; Lodovick Muggleton; James Murray; Thomas Nashe; Gary G. Nash; James Naylor; Thomas Newcomen; New Model Army; Christopher Newport; Martin Noell; George Nugent; Challoner Ogle; James Oglethorpe; Andrew Oliver; Peter Oliver; Grace O'Malley; Hugh O'Neil; Orange Order; John Oswald; James Otis, Jr.; Richard Overton; John Owen; Thomas Paine; Nell Painter; J. H. Parry; Orlando Patterson; Edmund Peacham; Samuel Pepys; Hugh Peter; William Petty; John Gast; Maxwell Philip; J. Philmore; John Place; Sir John Popham; Elizabeth Poole; John Porteous; Powhatan; E. D. Prendry; Thomas Preston; Richard Price; Joseph Priestley; Privy Council; Robert Purnel; Daniel Quin; Thomas Rainborough; William Rainborough; Sir Walter Raleigh; Hugh Rankin; James A. Rawley; Mary Read; John Reeves; William Hamilton Reid; James Revel; Paul Revere; Morgan John Rhys; Nathaniel Rich; Robert Rich; Edgell Rickword; James Ridgeway; Marcellus Rivers; Bartholomew Roberts; Robin Hood Club of London; Walter Rodney; Woodes Rogers; Royal Africa Company; Royal Navy; Prince Rupert; Benjamin Rush; John Ruskin; Thomas Russell; John Saltmarsh; Richard Saltonstall; Thomas Savery; Julius Scott; Daniel Searle; Edward Sexby; William Shakespeare; Sam Sharpe; Granville Sharp; Alexander Shaw; Sheffield Constitutional Society; Percy Bysshe Shelley; William Shirley; F. O. Shyllon; Martha Simmonds; Richard Simmonds; Barnaby Slush; Adam Smith; Abel Smith; John Smith; Samuel Smith; William Smith; William Smith, Jr.; William Smith, Sr.; William Snelgrave; James Somerset; George Somers; Sons of Liberty; Robert Southey; John Speed; Henry Spelman; Thomas Spence; Edmund Spenser; Francis Spriggs; John Gabriel Stedman; Bartholomew Steere; James Fitzjames Stephen; William Strachey; Hannah Stranger; Jonathan Strong; Charles Stuart; Jonathan Swift; Jack Tar; John Taylor; Edward Terrill; John Thelwall; Arthur Thistlewood; Thomas Thistlewood; Edward Thompson; Peter Timothy; Wolfe Tone; Edward Topsell; Anna Trapnel; B. Traven; Edward Trelawney; Sojourner Truth; Daniel Tucker; Mary Turner; Wat Tyler; William Tyndale; James Tyrrell; John Underhill; United Irishmen; Andrew Ure; John Ury; Rip Van Dam; Thomas Venner; Thomas Verney; Denmark Vesey; Constantin François Volney; Heinrich von Uchteritz; Wahunsenacawh; David Walker; Robert Walpole; Edward Ward; John Ward; John "Zion" Ward; Osborne Ward; Peter Watkinson; James Watson; John Webber; John Webster; Robert Weddenburn; Josiah Wedgwood; John Wesley; John Weston; William Weston; Charles White; George White; George Whitefield; Walt Whitman; Sarah Wight; William Wilberforce; John Wilkes; Jemima Wilkinson; Moses Wilkinson; Eric Williams; George Willson; George Wilson; Gerrard Winstanley; John Winthrop; Dan Wolfe; Mary Wollstonecraft; Thomas Wooler; Virginia Woolf; Edward Wrightman; Henry Redhead Yorke; Arthur Young

Important places

Atlantic Ocean; Adyssinia Baptist Church; Africa; African Baptist Church; Africa Institute; African American Congress (show all 59); Albion Mills, Southwark, London, England, UK; Bank of England; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Bristol, England, UK; Broadmwad Baptist Church; Cape Coast Castle, Ghana; Caribbean; Chesapeake, Virginia, USA; Company of Adventurers of London trading to Gynney and Bynney; Company of Royal Adventurers; Cromwellian Republic; Cutlers Company; Elmina, Central Region, Ghana; England, UK; France; Gambia River; Ghana; Gorée, Dakar, Senegal; Guinea Company; Holland; Ireland; Jamaica; Land of Cockayne; Levant Company; London, England, UK; Mediterranean; Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Naples, Campania, Italy; Netherlands; Congo Square, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New River Company; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New York, USA; Catherine Market; Nicaragua; North Carolina, USA; Pan-African Congress; Royal Afr; Scotland, UK; Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK; Sierra Leone; South Sea Company; Spain; Spanish America; Tahiti; Turkey; Virginia, USA; Virginia Company of London; West Africa; West Indies

Important events

American Revolution (1775 | 1783); Act Concering Aliens of 1798; Act Concerning Servants and Slaves (1705); Act for the Settlement of Ireland; Act of Trade of 1696; Act of Uniformity (1662) (show all 86); April Compromise; Articles of War of 1652; Baptist War (1831); Beggars Act of 1597/1598; Beggars' Christmas Riot (1582); Blasphemy Act; Boston Massacre; Boston Tea Party; Bussa's Rebellion; Cadiz Expedition (1596); Combination Act 1799; Conventicle Act (1664); Convention of London; Cornish Rising (1497); Corporation Act (1661); Dunmore's Proclamation (1775); Elizabethan Statute of Artificers (1814); English Revolution; Enslow Hill Rebellion (1596); Felt-Makers' Riot (1591); Five Mile Act (1665); Fort Wilson Riot; German Peasants' War; Golden Hill Riot; Gordon Riots; Haitian Revolution; Haymarket Massacre; Hydra Rebellion; Imperial Registry Bill of 1815; Intolerable Acts; Irish Rebellion of 1798; Jamaica Discipline; Kett's Rebellion; King Street Riot; Knowles Riot; Lavenham Rising (1525); Law of the Privateers; Liberty Riot; Lincolnshire Rising; Ludgate Prision Riot (1581); Massachusetts's Riot Act of 1786; Midlands Revolt of 1607; Nassau Street Riot; Navigation Acts; Navigation Act of 1651; Negro Seaman Act (1822); 1817; 1821; New York Conspiracy of 1714; Nicaraguan Expedition of 1780; Peasants' Revolt of 1381; Pequot War; Peterloo Massacre; Pilgrimage of Grace; Plaisterers' Insurrection (1586); Poor Law; Prayer Book Rebellion; Press Act of 1659; Perney Debates of 1647; Quartering Acts; Red String Conspiracy; Seven Years' War; Shays' Rebellion; South Carolina Council of Safty; Southwark Butter Riot (1595); Southwark Candle-Makers' Riot (1592); Spa Fields Riots; Stamp Act; Statute of Artificers; St. Johns Exhibition; Tacky's Rebellion; Tea Act; Test Act (1673); Townshend Acts; Treaty of Paris; Tudor Rebellions; Vagrancy Act; War of Spanish Succession; Western Rising 1626-1632; Whitsuntide Riots (1584)

Blurbers

Foner, Eric; Kelley, Robin D. G.; Berlin, Ira; Gilroy, Paul; Zinn, Howard