Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861, when the Civil War ended slavery. Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines h…
Chronology of events -- Prologue: Panic in Westmoreland County -- State of siege -- The Stono Revolt -- The 1741 New York conspiracy -- The Prosser conspiracy -- The German Coast Revolt -- Negro Fort resistance -- The Vesey conspiracy -- Nat Turner's Revolt -- The Cheneyville co…
"Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in slaveholders and politicians, and…
"Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in slaveholders and politicians, and…
"The story of the 1839 revolt on the Amistad slave ship gained new prominence with Steven Spielberg's 1997 film, which helped make the American public more aware of how the history of slavery has defined racism in the United States. As Iyunolu Folayan Osagie shows, the perspecti…
"The story of the 1839 revolt on the Amistad slave ship gained new prominence with Steven Spielberg's 1997 film, which helped make the American public more aware of how the history of slavery has defined racism in the United States. As Iyunolu Folayan Osagie shows, the perspecti…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Africans in Colonial Matanzas -- 2 Rural Slave Networks and Insurgent Geographies -- 3 The 1843 Rebellions in Matanzas -- 4 To Raise a Rebellion in Matanzas: The Urban Connection, 1841-1843 -- 5 And the Women Also Knew: T…
