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A 5 page essay that examines The Many-Head Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. The writer argues that this text presents an intriguing view of seventeenth and eighteenth century history, featuring the perceptive of the common people, rather than those who controlled the economic purse strings. The authors select particular historical events and the lives of specific individuals in order to illustrate the themes on which their premise is built. For example, their opening scenario, the wreck of the Sea-Venture illustrates many of the themes that permeate this volume, specifically the importance of the categories of expropriation, alternatives and cooperation. No additional sources cited.
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Atlantic, as theirs is a history from the perceptive of the common people, rather than those who controlled the economic purse strings. The authors select particular historical events and the
lives of specific individuals in order to illustrate the themes on which their premise is built. For example, their opening scenario, the wreck of the Sea-Venture illustrates many of the
themes that permeate this volume, specifically the importance of the categories of expropriation, alternatives and cooperation. In the year 1609, the Sea-Venture ran, afoul of an Atlantic hurricane in its
voyage to the Englands Virginia colony. The Sea-Venture wrecked, of course, despite the efforts of its crew and passengers, but, amazingly, there were no casualties, as it came to rest
between two great rocks located on the island of Bermuda (Linebaugh and Rediker 9). The passengers of the Sea-Venture had been taught to expect finding a paradise in Virginia (including
a six-hour workday) but this is what they found in Bermuda (Linebaugh and Rediker 11). Rather than go back to sea or face a worse environment in Virginia, many of
the passengers and sailors vowed "to defend their liberty...and not to set their hands to any travail or endeavor" that would take them off the island" (Linebaugh and Rediker 12).
With this pronouncement, this group adjured to the woods to start their own settlement; however, it failed. This attempt at independence failed, but multiple insurrections followed as the common people
tried to resist efforts on the part of Virginia Company officials to force them to continue on to Virginia. One such rebellion was led by Stephen Hopkins, a Puritan, who
argued that in Virginia, the "common people would only slave for the adventurers" (Linebaugh and Rediker 13). Eventually, company officials prevailed and two vessels were built, the Deliverance and the
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