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Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The slave revolt on the ship Amistad in 1839 was a crucial event in the early abolitionist movement in the United States. When the vessel arrived in America, a fierce debate began about whether the Africans were free or enslaved and whether they should be allowed to return to Africa. The argument became a legal battle that eventually ended up in the US Supreme Court, with former president John Quincy Adams representing the Africans. This remarkable...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"This is a story of Cot Daley, a young girl kidnapped from her home in Galway, Ireland, and shipped out to Barbados, where more than fifty thousand Irish sold as indentured servants to the plantation owners of the Caribbean worked the land alongside African slaves. Most of them would never see their families again."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1839, African slaves who rebelled against their Spanish owners on the Amistad schooner were charged with murder in the United States. This book details the famous U.S. Supreme Court case that ultimately ruled in favor of the black captives.
Author
Series
Grace in Africa volume 1
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Grace is swept up in a slave revolt after she escapes her family's compound to avoid a betrothal, where she sees the brutality of the family business and is moved by Cabeto's willingness to sacrifice his life for his people's freedom.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, pickaxes, Kelly risked his life and helped thirty-two enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a film about a critical moment in American history and of the multiple ways in which that moment has since been remembered. Nat Turner was a "troublesome property"...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A scholarly account of the nineteenth-century slave ship rebellion presented from the perspectives of the slaves discusses their fight for freedom within the context of the chain of resistance spanning the earliest slave revolts through the Civil Rights era.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1811, five hundred slaves dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Nat Turner was a black slave who led a rebellion in the American South in the summer of 1831. A charismatic leader, Turner gathered about 75 slaves to his cause. By the time the insurrection was suppressed, more than 100 were dead, and Turner was hanged. In the aftermath, laws were passed to prevent the education of slaves and a deeper schism opened between abolitionists and slaveholders. The rebellion was truly a harbinger of the bloody...
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