This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is The Common Wind, Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, by Julius S. Scott, with a foreword by Marcus Rediker.

The common wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks

that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world.

Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official 18th century records in

Spanish, English, and French, Julius Scott has written a powerful history from below.

Scott follows the spread of rumors of emancipation and the people behind them, bringing to life

the protagonists in the slave revolution.

Though the common wind is credited with having, quote, opened up the Black Atlantic with a

rigor and a commitment to the power of written words, the manuscript remained unpublished for 32

years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery in the new world,

it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author,

Marcus Rediker. The Common Wind, Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution,

by Julius S. Scott, with a foreword by

Marcus Rediker. Out now from Verso Books.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Typically, we think about migration as immigration,

people crossing international borders from one nation-state to another. And for the past half

century in the United States, we have tended to think about that immigration in a binary way.

Legal immigration versus illegal immigration. But to understand the origins of the immigration

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