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There are many, many people to thank. I couldn’t possibly thank them all. I thank first of all the people who helped me in graduate school at Duke University. Peter Wood showed us a whole new way of thinking about ourselves and about intellectual history. He taught me to understand enslaved people as thinking people, and this book is a tribute to him. John Jay TePaske, who taught colonial Latin American history, convinced me to go to Seville. Raymond Gavins taught me how to be a citizen in the profession. I learned much from Larry Goodwyn and Bill Chafe.

I am grateful to the fellows and staff of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia and to the late Armstead L. Robinson, head of the Institute at the time, who deserves special thanks. In addition, several people have helped me over the years and have supported the enterprise of The Common Wind: Laurent Dubois, Ada Ferrer, Neville Hall, Tera Hunter, Robin Kelley, Jane Landers, Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, Elisha Renne, Larry Rowley, Rebecca Scott, James Sidbury, Matthew Smith, Rachel Toor, and Stephen Ward.

Thanks as well go to the staff of the many archives and libraries I visited: The Archivo General de Indias (Seville), the Public Record Office (London, now called The National Archives), the Jamaica Archives (Spanish Town), the National Library of Jamaica (Kingston), the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London), the John Carter Brown Library (Providence, Rhode Island), the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts), the Bibliothèque des Frères (Port-au-Prince, Haiti), and the Bibliothèque de Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague. Special thanks go to the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies community at the University of Michigan. Finally, I would like to thank Ben Mabie and Duncan Ranslem of Verso Books for their careful and kind assistance.