1 Davis himself said much the same in a bitter exchange with Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh over Davis' negative reading of their book, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (New York: Verso, 2000)Google Scholar. But contrary to the charge Davis makes in his review, and unlike his work in general, the Many-Headed Hydra does stress that slavery can only be understood within the wider spectrum of unfree labor in the Atlantic world. For Davis' review of The Many-Headed Hydra, see “Slavery, White, Black, Muslim and Christian”, The New York Review of Books, 07 5, 2001Google Scholar. For the debate between Linebaugh, Rediker, and Davis, see The Many-Headed Hydra: An Exchange', The New York Review of Books, 09 20, 2001.Google Scholar