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Jubilating - Or, How the Atlantic Working Class Used the Biblical Jubilee Against Capitalism, with Some Success

Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh

Originally published by Midnight Notes this essay looks at how the Biblical idea of 'jubilee' was taken up by enslaved and proletarianised people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Submitted by red jack on March 30, 2018

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