Download or read book The Many-Headed Hydra written by Marcus Rediker and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would for ever change history. The Many-Headed Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world.