在《灰烬下的火》中，约翰·多诺霍通过对伦敦科尔曼街沃德的案例研究，探索了英国革命中激进思想的持久意义，探索了它们更广泛的大西洋历史。科尔曼街区位于17世纪伦敦拥挤的中心地带，是政治、社会和宗教动荡的温床。在那里，在各种各样、充满争议的清教徒群体中，一个喧嚣的共和党地下组织演变成了实现更完美的新教改革的政治手段。尽管科尔曼街长期以来一直被认为是英国革命的关键地点，但它对大西洋彼岸事件的重要性仍有待探讨。
科尔曼街（Coleman Street）的著名商人革命者通过深入投资奴隶贸易和殖民征服项目，领导了英国的帝国扩张。与他们对立的是科尔曼街的其他清教徒，他们作为殖民者和革命者，一次又一次地穿越海洋，传播着关于身体和灵魂自由的新思想，他们将其定义为反对英国新兴的帝国政治经济。多诺霍认为，这些跨大西洋激进分子推动社会正义，将其作为反对政治暴政和经济奴隶制的共和自由的基石，他们的努力为一个多世纪后席卷大西洋的废奴主义运动提供了意识形态基础。
Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political, social, and religious unrest. There among diverse and contentious groups of puritans a tumultuous republican underground evolved as the political means to a more perfect Protestant Reformation. But while Coleman Street has long been recognized as a crucial location of the English Revolution, its importance to events across the Atlantic has yet to be explored.
Prominent merchant revolutionaries from Coleman Street led England’s imperial expansion by investing deeply in the slave trade and projects of colonial conquest. Opposing them were other Coleman Street puritans, who having crossed and re-crossed the ocean as colonists and revolutionaries, circulated new ideas about the liberty of body and soul that they defined against England’s emergent, political economy of empire. These transatlantic radicals promoted social justice as the cornerstone of a republican liberty opposed to both political tyranny and economic slavery—and their efforts, Donoghue argues, provided the ideological foundations for the abolitionist movement that swept the Atlantic more than a century later.
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