
Currents of Revolution: On Julius S. Scott’s “The Common Wind”
Malkah Bressler reviews Julius S. Scott's "The Common Wind," a classic of 18th-century Caribbean scholarship, now published 30 years after being written....
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HISTORY
Malkah Bressler holds a PhD in English Literature from Fordham University. Her dissertation considers depictions of plants and animals found in the Caribbean and argues that many of these illustrations communicate modes of resistance practiced by enslaved and free Africans.