Inspired by getting this signed last night, I took the day to polish off @davidveevers.bsky.social 's astonishing 'The Great Defiance'.
It tells a story of a huge swathe of the early modern world in its encounters with, and resistance to, British Empire - and in so doing enriches every angle. (🧵)
![n example of this may be found in 1898 account of the people who were illegally trafficked to the United States on the Wanderer, which stated that a number of survivors later committed suicide under the belief that "if they would jump into the sea and drown themselves they would be carried back to Africa by the good spirits...among them being one called King Mingo, who decoyed two children to St. Simon's beach, during the absence of his mistress, and all three of them jumped from a high bluff into the swift current and were drowned."[9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cvsx44be7ylptbuz26pjb33t/bafkreie2ykr437voop4pxlx6qfyplhmviach2wd47dujstd6iubjuhergy)
