Poseidon’s Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution

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Poseidon’s Curse translates the American Revolution from the vantage point of the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher P. Magra traces how British naval impressment played a number one role in the upward push of Great Britain’s seaborne empire, yet in the end contributed significantly to its decline. Long reliant on appropriating free laborers to man the warships that defended British colonies and maritime commerce, the British severely jeopardized mariners’ earning potential and occupational mobility, which ended in deep resentment toward the British Empire. Magra explains how anger about impressment translated into revolutionary ideology, with impressment in the end occupying an incredible role within the Declaration of Independence as probably the most foremost grievances American citizens had with the British government.

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