Niklas Frykman on the Revolutionary Atlantic
Join Niklas Frykman on Saturday, OCT 3rd for a long history of the class and political compositions that comprised resistance struggles against Empire during the Late 18th-Century. Frykman will focus on the naval wars of the 1790s, the “shock proletarianization at sea,” and the wide-scale desertion and mutiny of workers forced into warships.
At the height of the French Revolutionary Wars of the 1790s, hundreds of mutinies repeatedly pushed military discipline in Europe’s war-fleets to the very brink of collapse, and sometimes beyond. Please join Niklas Frykman in remembering one of the largest, most radical frontline resistance movements of our history.
The event will take place at Bluestockings Bookstore at 7pm on Saturday, OCT 3rd. Niklas Frykman currently lives in Pittsburgh where he is finishing his PhD with Marcus Rediker (author of The Many-Headed Hydrawith Peter Linebaugh) at the University of Pittsburgh.
You can find Frykman’s article, “Seamen on Late 18th-Century European Warships” here.