Black RebellionBlack Rebellion
Five Slave Revolts
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Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st Da Capo Press ed, No Longer Available.Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st Da Capo Press ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsBlack 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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- New York : Da Capo Press, 1998.
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