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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide

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Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.

  • Offers an overview of American slave revolts and conspiracies to revolt

  • Explores the context of chronic fear of uprising in slaveholding colonies and states in North America from 1663 to 1861

  • Offers accounts gleaned from primary resources regarding slave leaders and their lieutenants, and of the trials that condemned them

  • Describes the climate of fear in which slaveholding whites lived, as well as the various social practices and legal statutes they enacted to minimize the risk of slave revolt

  • Includes a narrative, primary materials, biographics, a chronology, and an annotated bibliography―all of which will be helpful to students writing papers on the topic


Request Code : ZLIBIO1418053
Categories:
Year:
2015
Publisher:
ABC-CLIO
Language:
English
Pages:
255
ISBN 10:
161069659X
ISBN 13:
9781610696593
ISBN:
161069659X,9781610696593

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