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Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts and the History of Black Resistance
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617206900
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 16 2012
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Black Rebellion is Thomas Wentworth Higginson's forceful historical account of five major slave revolts and resistance movements in the Atlantic world. Written by a committed abolitionist and former commander of one of the first federally authorised Black regiments in the Civil War, the book examines the Maroons of Jamaica, Gabriel's conspiracy, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, and Toussaint Louverture's struggle in Haiti. Project Gutenberg identifies the work under the fuller title Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts and describes it as a late nineteenth-century historical account of significant uprisings against slavery.
Higginson's purpose was to recover the courage, organisation, desperation, and political meaning of enslaved people who refused submission. The book is a product of its period and should be read with awareness of nineteenth-century language and assumptions, but its central argument remains clear: resistance to slavery was not an exception or an aberration, but a recurring assertion of human freedom against an intolerable system. For readers of abolitionist history, Black resistance, Atlantic slavery, Civil War-era reform, and nineteenth-century American nonfiction, Black Rebellion remains a compact and important historical source.
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