The Common Wind Quotes

“To Toussaint’s dismay, British cruisers patrolling the waters off Saint-Domingue strictly enforced these limits on maritime activity.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“the planters and the commercial bourgeoisie undertook the similar task of supporting the Revolution while at the same time working to keep the social forces which it unleashed from spilling over into the colonies.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“After the war, local groups—Quakers and non-Quakers alike—kept alive the opposition to the slave trade.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“sailors took the lead by mounting violent protests against the exploitative working conditions of the slave trade.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“To the north, the victorious rebels did not extend their revolutionary principles to include the unfree, and by 1787 it was clear that the new nation would be built in large measure on the backs of the enslaved black workers who constituted fully a fifth of the population of the United States.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“On Hispaniola, tensions between French and Spanish officials eased considerably in 1764 after the Spanish governor allowed a detachment of the maréchaussée (mounted militia) from Saint-Domingue to cross the border in pursuit of a band of runaways which had inhabited the mountainous stretches separating the colonies since 1728.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“even a “successful” free black immigrant like George Liele could prove a troublesome presence in Jamaica. Liele, a Baptist minister, was responsible for introducing the Baptist faith to Jamaica and enlisted hundreds of black converts.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“Smaller contingents of black loyalists ended up in the Bahamas and other British islands.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“European sailors and African slaves.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“The apparent unrest among Irish soldiers and seamen in royal service in the early 1790s coincides closely with the emergence of nationalist republicanism in Ireland, a new and vital stage in the developing opposition to British rule.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“powerful religious mystic”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“Such concerns were not misplaced. Throughout the eighteenth century, planters found the links between city and country both vexing and essential.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“Though rarely counted as carefully in population censuses, free blacks and browns seemed to cause much greater day-to-day concern among government officials and white residents in both Jamaica and Saint-Domingue than in the Spanish colonies.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“since Haiti became emancipated, there are already in the Antilles more free negroes and mulattoes than slaves.”44”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“devised clandestine ways to transmit information quickly and effectively.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“forms of resistance already endemic to the region continued to thrive and spread. The practice of Africans fleeing their enslavers, for example, was already a tradition of long standing at the turn of the eighteenth century.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“by 1739 Saint-Domingue was the world’s richest and most profitable slave colony.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

“the tempest created by the black revolutionaries of Saint-Domingue and communicated by mobile people in other slave societies would prove a major turning point in the history of the Americas.”
― Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution