"For most readers the
tale told here will be completely new. For those already well acquainted
with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age
which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be
profoundly challenged."—David Montgomery, author of Citizen Worker
Long
before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of
Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women,
and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would
forever change history.
