Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for generations in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica and Surinam; of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited about 1,000 fellow slaves in 1800 to launch a rebellion throughout Virginia; of Denmark Vesey, an ex-slave, seaman, and artisan, fluent in several languages, who conspired in 1822 to kill the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, and take over the city; and of the revolutionary mystic Nat Turner, who in 1831 organized and led the most successful and dramatic slave revolt in North America. The author also describes how whites responded with panic, sweeping arrests, mass executions, and more repressive laws in a futile effort to crush the slaves’ insatiable desire to be free.
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"[One of] the ten most suggested books to build your African-American library." -- Philadelphia Daily News 02/27/04
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THE Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down upon the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Bal from his diplomatic ease, - endangering, according to the official statement, "public cred " "civil rights" and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country" until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, South Carolina, Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas, Southampton County, Dismal Swamp, Gullah Jack, John Brown, New York, North Carolina, Southern States, United States, Don Guillermo, Monday Gell, New Orleans, Old Montagu, Richmond Enquirer, William Garner, William Paul New!
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THE Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down upon the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Bal from his diplomatic ease, - endangering, according to the official statement, "public cred " "civil rights" and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country" until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, South Carolina, Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas, Southampton County, Dismal Swamp, Gullah Jack, John Brown, New York, North Carolina, Southern States, United States, Don Guillermo, Monday Gell, New Orleans, Old Montagu, Richmond Enquirer, William Garner, William Paul New!
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- Black Rebellion by Thomas Wentworth Higginson on 6 pages
- American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker in Front Matter
- The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp in Front Matter
- American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in Front Matter
- Civil War (The Civil War) by Linda R. Wade in Front Matter
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- Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000 by Barry Sanders in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading Between The Lines (Academic Exam Prep. and Tutorial Guides) by LearningExpress Editors on page 234
- New Caribbean Thought: A Reader by Brian Meeks on page 424
- Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves by Yuval Taylor in Back Matter
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