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communication network that connected multiple islands within the region. As a consequence of the "common wind" of information, these communities developed an autonomous political identity that was more radical than those in
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Caribbean learned about slave uprisings and efforts to re-enslave emancipated freemen of African descent. Fugitive slaves and freemen became links in a
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praised the quality of Scott's writing, but also attributed the book's scholarly influence to Scott's unique ability to find evidence of hidden and ephemeral communications within sources that deliberately concealed those communications. In
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to publish the dissertation in book form, but did not agree with suggestions for revision and opted not to publish the book. Aside from a selection from one chapter of the dissertation reprinted in the 2010 volume
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called the dissertation "so exciting, original, and profound" that it inspired "an entire generation to create a new field of knowledge about the past". The dissertation was the subject of a 2008 conference at the
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White, Ashli (December 2019). "The Common Wind: Afro-American
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titled "The Common Wind: Conversations in
African American and Atlantic Histories" that reviewed its impact on the fields of
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Ashie-Nikoi, Edwina (2005). "A Multifunctional Space: The Uses of Rituals among Enslaved and Freed Afro-Caribbean Peoples".
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