Black rebellion
Subtitle: eyewitness accounts of major slave revolts
By: edited by Dr. Sujan Dass
Publisher: Two Horizons Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780981617046
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Sources; Maroons; History
Other titles: Eyewitness accounts of major slave revolts
Description: "Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted to the chattel slave system, accepting their new lot in life. When one scours the records, a different story emerges. Black Rebellion chronicles the active resistance of Africans in the New World against their oppressors. These firsthand accounts reveal much that has been neglected in the traditional telling of history. Black Rebellion is a collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas, written primarily by contemporaries and eyewitnesses. It contains accounts of Nat Turner's Revolt, Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy, the Stono Rebellion, the Haitian Revolution, and the Maroon Wars of Jamaica and Surinam, as well as a timeline of Western slavery and revolt. This collection is further illuminated by an introduction by Dr. Sujan Dass. Other essays address why most slave revolts were betrayed by fellow slaves, the role of music in rebellion, and resistance to slavery among African leaders. Contains the full text of T. W. Higginson's Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (1889), the full text of Joshua Coffin's An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections (1860), excerpts from Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805), excerpts from William Wells Brown's The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), and other works"--Product description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-267).
Table of contents: title: Five Black slave revolts; title: The Maroons of Jamaica; title: The Maroons of Surinam; title: Gabriel's defeat; title: Denmark Vesey; title: Nat Turner's insurrection; title: Slave insurrections; title: Note to the reader; title: Slave insurrections; title: The Stono Rebellion; title: The Negro insurrection in South Carolina; title: A family account of the Stono uprising; title: The Haitian revolution; title: An 1805 account; title: An 1823 account; title: An 1863 account; title: Appendix; title: Why tell? The betrayal of American slave revolts; title: Resistance to slavery among African leaders; title: Black rebellion timeline.