Pese a que se suele considerar México un país con escasa presencia afroamericana, en pocas provincias del Nuevo Mundo como en la Nueva España tuvieron la oportunidad de manifestarse, entre los negros esclavos o libres, personalidades tan fuertes como las de Juan Galindo, compañe…
Pese a que se suele considerar México un país con escasa presencia afroamericana, en pocas provincias del Nuevo Mundo como en la Nueva España tuvieron la oportunidad de manifestarse, entre los negros esclavos o libres, personalidades tan fuertes como las de Juan Galindo, compañe…
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and…
Prologue: The path to Rebel's Barricade -- War's empire -- The Jamaica garrison -- Coromantee territory -- Tacky's Revolt -- The Coromantee war -- Routes of reverberation -- Epilogue: Servile war and the militants' bequest. "Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the larges…
"In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the y…
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and…
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and…
"A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum Florida. This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, …
This study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. The author discusses Florida's historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the 17th century.
