1700s

1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:45:57 +0000

PUBLISHER'S INTRODUCTION

The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century

David in Atlanta — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:43:54 +0000

Introduction

Pirate utopias: Under the banner of death, 1640-1820

ftony — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:57:01 +0000

"In an honest Service, there is thin Commons, low Wages, and hard Labour; in this, Plenty and Satiety, Pleasure and Ease, Liberty and Power; and who would not ballance Creditor on this Side, when all the Hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sower Look or two at choaking. No, a merry Life and a short one shall be my Motto" - Pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts.(1)

1680-1730: Pirates and Anglo-American piracy in the Atlantic

Steven. — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:18:08 +0000

On the afternoon of the 26 July 1726, William Fly walked the steps of the Boston gallows. Unlike his fellow condemned, Fly had shown no fear at his fate. The great and the good who had gathered to see the pirate die were uncomfortable: he was not playing his agreed part in the moral drama. But, as Fly neared the rope, their fears it seemed were unfounded.

1789-1989: Revolutionary song in France

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:58:06 +0000

Like other political groups, anarchists have seen music as an excellent means of agitation and of popular education, and have made it one of their key activities of propaganda in many countries.

1700: The Jolly Roger

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:39:21 +0000

There have been a number of different explanations of the origin of the most famous of the pirates’ flags: the ‘skull and cross bones’, which was first used around the year 1700.

1600-today: Radical puppetry

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:34:25 +0000

The ‘carnivalesgue’ has often been a feature of popular rebellion. Recently we saw its self-conscious re-emergence in the US and the UK (notably on Reclaim the Streets actions). Masks, fancy dress and puppets perform a dual role, providing both a pleasurable escape from the routines of everyday life and means of disguise.

1766: The Real del Monte miners' strike

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:25:52 +0000

In the summer of 1766 Mexican silver miners of Real del Monte, about one hundred kilometres north of Mexico city, developed a major industrial strike without a trade union or a political ideology to sustain them. It was the first strike in the history of Mexican labour and the first strike in North America

7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:02:56 +0000

If women, of all the subordinate groups in a society dominated by rich white males, were closest to home (indeed, in the home), the most interior, then the Indians were the most foreign, the most exterior. Women, because they were so near and so needed, were dealt with more by patronization

6. The Intimately Oppressed

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:00:21 +0000

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

5. A kind of Revolution

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:58:51 +0000

The American victory over the British army was made possible by the existence of an already- armed people. Just about every white male had a gun, and could shoot. The Revolutionary leadership distrusted the mobs of poor. But they knew the Revolution had no appeal to slaves and Indians. They would have to woo the armed white population.

4. Tyranny is Tyranny

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:56:38 +0000

Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential

3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:55:13 +0000

In 1676, seventy years after Virginia was founded, a hundred years before it supplied leadership for the American Revolution, that colony faced a rebellion of white frontiersmen, joined by slaves and servants, a rebellion so threatening that the governor had to flee the burning capital of Jamestown, and England decided to send a thousand soldiers across the Atlantic, hoping to maintain order

2. Drawing the Color Line

Steven. — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:50:22 +0000

A black American writer, J. Saunders Redding, describes the arrival of a ship in North America in the year 1619:

Sails furled, flag drooping at her rounded stern, she rode the tide in from the sea. She was a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frightening ship, a ship of mystery. Whether she was