Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (Paperback)

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Author) "THE Maroons ! it was a word of peril once ; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some..." (more)

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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Cosimo Classics (December 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596057459
ISBN-13: 978-1596057456
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian slave. Each time did one man's name become a spell of dismay and a symbol of deliverance. Each time did that name eclipse its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turned recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel. -from "Gabriel's Defeat" Fired with an abolitionist's passion, these five true accounts of slave uprisings in Latin America and the United States are among the best writings we have of the struggle to end slavery in the Western hemisphere. Written by a dedicated antislavery crusader and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, these highly readable essays combine in-depth research with assured, absorbing prose to tell fascinating and important stories: of black warrior societies of the "Maroons," descendents of escaped slaves who lived in the jungles of the West Indies and South America; of Gabriel, whose dedication to throwing off the shackles of oppression turned him into a figure with an almost mystical aura; and Nat Turner's furious insurrection; and more. American author and civil-rights activist THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823¬-1911) also wrote Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) and Common Sense About Women (1881).

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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-caires from his diplomatic ease, - endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "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

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